Extended motion diffusion based change detection for airport ground surveillance

IEEE Trans Image Process. 2020 Apr 14. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2020.2984854. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

Change detection in airport ground is important for airport security. Due to the particularity of ground environment, e.g. haze and camouflage, airport ground change detection is generally incomplete. If an incomplete detection is used as reference for the detection in subsequent frames, it may result in noticeable detection defects across the frames. In this paper, extended motion diffusion (EMD) is proposed to address the problems. The core idea of the EMD is to design a novel model insensitive to incomplete detection. Firstly the one-to-many correspondence in traditional motion diffusion is extended in the prediction step of EMD to build up correspondence from incomplete detection to intact objects. Prior information, e.g. aircraft motion prior and ground structure prior, is employed in the development of the correspondence. Then based on the correspondence a number of new samples are synthesized and filtered in the identification step of the EMD to compensate possible detection defects. Finally, the reserved samples are collected to train a foreground model, which is used in conjunction with another background model for classification. The proposed method is verified based on the Airport Ground Video Surveillance (AGVS) benchmark. Experimental results show effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in dealing with haze and camouflage.