Compressive Sensing Approaches for Autonomous Object Detection in Video Sequences

Video analytics requires operating with large amounts of data. Compressive sensing allows to reduce the number of measurements required to represent the video using the prior knowledge of sparsity of the original signal, but it imposes certain conditions on the design matrix. The Bayesian compressive sensing approach relaxes the limitations of the conventional approach using the probabilistic reasoning and allows to include different prior knowledge about the signal structure. This paper presents two Bayesian compressive sensing methods for autonomous object detection in a video sequence from a static camera. Their performance is compared on real datasets with the non-Bayesian greedy algorithm. It is shown that the Bayesian methods can provide more effective results than the greedy algorithm in terms of both accuracy and computational time.