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With the acquisition of an image, the first step is to distinguish objects of interest from the background. In surveillance applications, those objects of interest are usually humans. Their various shapes and different motions, including walking, jumping, bending down, and so forth, represent significant challenges in the extraction of foreground pixels from the image.
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Qian, H., Wu, X., Xu, Y. (2011). Background/Foreground Detection. In: Intelligent Surveillance Systems. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1137-2_2
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