Scene Change Detection Using Multiscale Cascade Residual Convolutional Neural Networks

• Daniel Felipe S. Santos Unesp
• Rafael Gonçalves Pires Unesp
• Danilo Colombo Petrobrás
• João Papa Unesp

Resumo

Scene change detection is an image processing problem related to partitioning pixels of a digital image into foreground and background regions. Mostly, visual knowledge-based computer intelligent systems, like traffic monitoring, video surveillance, and anomaly detection, need to use change detection techniques. Amongst the most prominent detection methods, there are the learning-based ones, which besides sharing similar training and testing protocols, differ from each other in terms of their architecture design strategies. Such architecture design directly impacts on the quality of the detected results, and also in the device resources capacity, like memory. In this work, we propose a novel Multiscale Cascade Residual Convolutional Neural Network, that integrates multiscale processing strategy by means of a Residual Processing Module, with a Segmentation Convolutional Neural Network. Experiments conducted on two different datasets support the effectiveness of the proposed approach, achieving an average overall F-measure results of 0.9622 and 0.9664 over Change Detection 2014 and PetrobrasROUTES datasets respectively, besides comprising approximately eight times fewer parameters. Such results place the proposed technique amongst the top four state-of-the-art scene change detection methods.