Video denoising and moving object detection by rank-1 and total variation regularization on robust principal component analysis framework

With the complexity of the video environment and the problem of possible noise during data transmission, traditional robust principal component analysis (RPCA) failed to obtain the lowest rank representation from corrupted data. A method of video denoising and an object detection algorithm based on the RPCA model with total variation and rank-1 constraint (TVR1-RPCA) is proposed; it employs the more refined prior representations for the static and dynamic components of the video sequences. The proposed method is based on RPCA under the framework of low-rank sparse decomposition; the rank-1 constraint is exploited to describe the strong low-rank property of the background layer, TV regularization is combined with l1 regularization to constrain the sparsity and spatial continuity of the foreground component, and l2 norm regularization is combined to constrain the noise to make up for the deficiencies of the existing RPCA model. In addition, an efficient algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers is designed to solve the proposed video denoising and moving object detection issues. Our experiments on static and moving camera videos demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to the state-of-the-art methods in terms of denoising capability and detection accuracy.