How to play video after background subtraction with deployable video player?

This is my first time using MATLAB, I'm still adapting myself with the language.. What I want to ask is, if I just used this code from help document for gaussian mixture model background substraction:

videoSource = vision.VideoFileReader('3.avi','ImageColorSpace','Intensity','VideoOutputDataType','uint8');
detector = vision.ForegroundDetector(...
       'NumTrainingFrames', 5, ... % 5 because of short video
       'InitialVariance', 30*30); % initial standard deviation of 30
blob = vision.BlobAnalysis(...
       'CentroidOutputPort', false, 'AreaOutputPort', false, ...
       'BoundingBoxOutputPort', true, ...
       'MinimumBlobAreaSource', 'Property', 'MinimumBlobArea', 250);
shapeInserter = vision.ShapeInserter('BorderColor','White');

videoPlayer = vision.VideoPlayer();
while ~isDone(videoSource)
     frame  = step(videoSource);
     fgMask = step(detector, frame);
     bbox   = step(blob, fgMask);
     out    = step(shapeInserter, frame, bbox); % draw bounding boxes around cars
     step(videoPlayer, out); % view results in the video player
end
release(videoPlayer);
release(videoSource);

the video playing so fast.. And I found if I play video only without background substraction with deployable video player, it's play like in windows movie player.. My question is how I can play with deployable video player after using gaussian mixture model background substraction?

Answer 1

[Dima Lisin]

Hi Shiloh,

the line

step(videoPlayer, out); % view results in the video player

tells the vision.VideoPlayer object to display image out, which is the original video frame with the bounding boxes. If you want to show the result of the background subtraction, you should replace out with fgMask.

If you wish to use vision.DeployableVideoPlayer, then you should simply replace

videoPlayer = vision.VideoPlayer();

with

videoPlayer = vision.DeployableVideoPlayer();

You can also play the video and the foreground mask side by side using two video players. See the Motion-Based Multiple Object Tracking example.

[Shiloh Pho]

Hello, thank you for your help.. Can I ask again? Is there any command in matlab that can delay each frame?

[Dima Lisin]

Hi Shiloh,

I am not quite sure what you mean by "delay"... Is your video playing too fast? You can use the pause function to cause matlab to wait for some amount of time.