GPU-accelerated real-time video background subtraction

Abstract

Identifying objects of interest in a video sequence is a fundamental and essential part in many vision systems. A common method to achieve that goal is to perform background subtraction. For automated surveillance systems with multiple cameras, real-time background subtraction is particularly important. In this paper, we examine how to exploit GPU parallelism to accelerate the single Gaussian background subtraction algorithm achieving real-time processing of multiple concurrent videos. Experiments performed on a low end GPU showed promising results.