Remove Noise in Video with 3D Topological Maps

  • Donatello Conte
  • Guillaume Damiand
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8621)

Abstract

In this paper we present a new method for foreground masks denoising in videos. Our main idea is to consider videos as 3D images and to deal with regions in these images. Denoising is thus simply achieved by merging foreground regions corresponding to noise with background regions. In this framework, the main question is the definition of a criterion allowing to decide if a region corresponds to noise or not. Thanks to our complete cellular description of 3D images, we can propose an advanced criterion based on Betti numbers, a topological invariant. Our results show the interest of our approach which gives better results than previous methods.

Keywords

Video denoising 3D Topological Maps Betti numbers 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Donatello Conte
    • 1
  • Guillaume Damiand
    • 2
  1. 1.Université François-Rabelais de Tours, LI EA 6300France
  2. 2.Université de Lyon, CNRS, LIRIS, UMR5205France

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