Patent Document ID: 9317908
Application ID: 13930222
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for filtering out false-positive foreground pixels, the method comprising: extracting foreground patches from a video frame using a background model image, the foreground patches each including respective foreground pixels; determining a bounding box for each foreground patch; for each bounding box: (1) for each foreground pixel in the foreground patch in the bounding box: (A) determining a texture of a first area including the foreground pixel and pixels surrounding the foreground pixel and a texture of a second area including pixels of the background model image corresponding to the first area pixels, wherein the textures of the first area and the second area each represent a local variability of intensity values of respective pixels, and (B) determining a correlation score based on the texture of the first area and the texture of the second area, and (2) for foreground pixels having correlation scores which exceed a threshold value, removing the foreground pixels from the foreground patch in the bounding box, wherein the threshold value is proportional to a size of the bounding box; and for each bounding box having foreground pixels removed, reducing a size of the bounding box based on the removal of the foreground pixels.