Improved Rodent Contour Extraction Using A Priori Shape Information

Rowland R. Sillito, T.C. Lukins, J. D. Armstrong

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Abstract

We propose a method for automatically setting the foreground detection threshold implicit in background subtraction algorithms by measuring the similarity between the shape of a detected foreground region and a set of reference contours over a range of thresholds, and selecting the threshold that maximises this similarity measure. This method is shown to select appropriate thresholds for a range of unseen video frames.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWorkshop on the Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior (held at ICPR2010)
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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