Compressed Domain Moving Object Detection Based on CRF

Abstract

This paper aims to present a novel accurate moving object detection method based on the conditional random field (CRF) for high efficiency video coding/H.265 compressed domain video sequences. For each block, the number of consumed bits, motion vectors (MVs), and partitioning modes for a given block is extracted from the compressed bitstream. After removing outlier MVs, compensating MVs are assigned to the I-blocks based on their neighboring blocks. The information, such as MV, partitioning mode, and bit consumption, is used in the potential functions of a CRF model which is updated for every frame to detect the objects. Then, a number of standard test video sequences are used to verify the performance of the model. The results indicated that the model can offer a precision, that is more than 90% on average for the video sequences. The proposed method offers a 1.8 speedup, compared to the latest works in the compressed domain without losing the objects in the I-frames.