Marco Cristani, Michela Farenzena, Domenico Bloisi, and Vittorio Murino

Background Subtraction for Automated

Surveillance under a Multimodal Perspective:

a Comprehensive Review

This page contains test sequences which represent diverse scenarios for the background subtraction issue.

The page is very similar to that of the "Wallflower" paper [2], from which we took inspiration. Each sequence is formed by a set of frames, and one of them is used as test or evaluation image. The ground truth is represented by a hand-segmented version of the evaluation image. 

In particular, there are a set of .zip file, one for each of the test scenarios. Each .zip file contains the training images, test images, and hand-segmented evaluation image for comparison, all in BMP format. Each .zip file also contains a file called "script.txt" that gives a short description of the events in the sequence and specifies which images are used for testing and evaluation. The links with [2] refers to the Microsoft website.

For questions about these test sequences with [1], please refer to marco[DOT]cristani[AT]univr[DOT]it

For questions about these test sequences with [2], please refer to jckrumm[AT]microsoft[DOT]com

SCENARIO	From left to right: 2 frames of example, the test frame, the ground truth
MOVED OBJECT ([2])
TIME OF DAY ([2])
LIGHT SWITCH ([2])
LIGHT SWITCH (LOCAL) ([1])
WAVING TREE ([2])
CAMOUFLAGE ([2])
BOOTSTRAPPING ([2])
FOREGROUND APERTURE ([2])
SLEEPING FOREGROUND ([1])
SHADOWS ([1])
REFLECTIONS ([1])

[1] M. Cristani, M. Farenzena, D. Bloisi, V. Murino, Background Subtraction for Automated Multisensor Surveillance: a Comprehensive Review, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2010, Article ID 343057, 2010

[2] Kentaro Toyama, John Krumm, Barry Brumitt, Brian Meyers, Wallflower: Principles and Practice of Background Maintenance, Seventh International Conference on Computer Vision, September 1999, Kerkyra, Greece, pp. 255-261, IEEE Computer Society Press.