MsEDNet: Multi-Scale Deep Saliency Learning for Moving Object Detection

Moving object detection (foreground and background) is an important problem in computer vision. Most of the works in this problem are based on background subtraction. However, these approaches are not able to handle scenarios with infrequent motion of object, illumination changes, shadow, camouflage etc. To overcome these, here a two stage robust and compact method for moving object detection (MOD) is proposed. In first stage, to generate the saliency map, background image is estimated using a temporal histogram technique with the help of several input frames. In the second stage, multiscale encoder-decoder network is used to learn multiscale semantic feature of estimated saliency for foreground extraction. The encoder is used to extract multi-scale features from multi-scale saliency map. The decoder part is designed to learn the mapping of low resolution multi-scale features into high resolution output frame. To observe the efficacy of proposed MsEDNet, experiments are conducted on two benchmark datasets (change detection (CDnet-2014) [1] and Wallflower [2]) for MOD. The precision, recall and F-measure are used as performance parameter for comparison with the existing state-of-the-art methods. Experimental results show a significant improvement in detection accuracy and decrement in execution time as compared to the state-of-the-art methods for MOD.