@inproceedings{9159736dfcb34cac8a8d3baeff8eaa30,
title = "A novel video summarization method for multi-intensity illuminated infrared videos",
abstract = "In nighttime video surveillance, proper illumination plays a key role for the image quality. For ordinary IR-illuminators with fixed intensity, faraway objects are often hard to identify due to insufficient illumination while nearby objects may suffer from over-exposure, resulting in image foreground/background of poor quality. In this paper we proposed a novel video summarization method which utilizes a novel multi-intensity IR-illuminator to generate images of human activities with different illumination levels. By adopting GMM-based foreground extraction procedure for images acquired for each illumination level, foreground objects with most plausible quality can be selected and merged with a preselected representation for still background. The result brings out a reasonable video summary for moving foreground, which is generally unachievable for nighttime surveillance videos.",
keywords = "multi-intensity infrared illuminator, Nighttime video surveillance, video summary",
author = "Jen-Hui Chuang and Tsai, {W. J.} and Chan, {Chia Hsin} and Teng, {Wen Chih} and Lu, {I. Chun}",
year = "2013",
month = oct,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1109/ICME.2013.6607595",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781479900152",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo",
booktitle = "2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2013",
note = "null ; Conference date: 15-07-2013 Through 19-07-2013",
}