Motion History Images

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The motion history image (MHI) is a static image template helps in understanding the motion location and path as it progresses.^[1] In MHI, the temporal motion information is collapsed into a single image template where intensity is a function of recency of motion. Thus, the MHI pixel intensity is a function of the motion history at that location, where brighter values correspond to a more recent motion. Using MHI, moving parts of a video sequence can be engraved with a single image, from where one can predict the motion flow as well as the moving parts of the video action.

Some important features of the MHI representation are:^[2]

• It represents motion sequence in a compact manner. In this case, the silhouette sequence is condensed into a grayscale image, where dominant motion information is preserved.
• MHI can be created and implemented in low illumination conditions where the structure cannot be easily detected otherwise.
• The MHI representation is not so sensitive to silhouette noises, holes, shadows, and missing parts.
• The gray-scale MHI is sensitive to the direction of motion because it can demonstrate the flow direction of the motion.
• It keeps a history of temporal changes at each pixel location, which then decays over time.
• The MHI expresses the motion flow or sequence by using the intensity of every pixel in a temporal manner.

General algorithm

for each time t
    Bt := absolute_difference(It, It-1) > threshold
end for

for each time t
    for each pixel (x, y)
        if Bt(x, y) = 1
            MHIt(x, y) := τ
        else if MHIt-1 ≠ 0
            MHIt(x, y) := MHIt-1(x, y) - 1
        else
            MHIt(x, y) := 0
        end if
end for

References

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