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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2012
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Amit Kumar Gupta, New South Wales, AU;
Getian Ye, New South Wales, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of storing a scene model () used for foreground/background separation of a scene () captured by a camera (), the scene model comprising a plurality of visual element models () each associated with a set () of mode models (, . . . ), said method comprising determining () if a change in the scene satisfies a pre-determined threshold (MFGT), creating () a background image based on a plurality of the mode models classified as background, matching () an input image () captured by the camera and the background image by determining a similarity score, and updating the set of mode models if the similarity score satisfies a pre-determined similarity threshold by creating at least one mode model based on the received input image, said mode model being classified as background.