Method of foreground/background separation

METHOD OF FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND SEPARATION Abstract Disclosed herein are a method, system, and computer program product for creating a scene model of a scene, for separating a background and a foreground of at least one frame in an image sequence depicting the scene. The method includes the following steps, dependent upon a stability measure associated with the scene model being less than a stability threshold: 5 (i) capturing a frame in the image sequence (305); (ii) recording the captured frame to a stored video sequence (335), dependent upon a recording session being active (330); (iii) updating an initial scene model, based on the captured frame (340); (iv) determining the stability measure associated with the scene model (340); and (v) providing a feedback, dependent upon the stability measure being less than a stability threshold (370). Then, dependent upon the 10 recording session being active, the method captures at least one subsequent frame in the image sequence and records each captured subsequent frame to the stored video sequence (335). Finally, the method produces a scene model (380) that distinguishes background from foreground in the scene, based on the updated initial scene model. 2455409I.DOC IRN: 933203 - 1/10 ( Start l Capture video framer No Start trigger eceived Yes Ys End trigger eceived? No 130 135 Record video frame rVie file Update scene model and 10145 determine scene model 14 stability Scene model No nd trigger eceived? Yes No table 160 Generate No seeFg 1 stability alert odeeF?. Yes 180 190 Use scene C7 End model