  Authors:
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  Olivier Barnich and
  Marc Van Droogenbroeck <m.vandroogenbroeck@ulg.ac.be>

  
  Licence:
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  ViBe is covered by a patent (see http://www.ulg.ac.be/telecom/research/vibe).

  Permission to use ViBe without payment of fee is granted 
  for nonprofit educational and research purposes only.

  This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any 
  purpose. 

  Copying, reproduction, or republishing for any purpose shall require 
  a license. Please contact the author in such cases.
  All the code is provided without any guarantee.


  Full documentation: 
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  See http://www2.ulg.ac.be/telecom/research/vibe/doc/index.html
  

  Kind request: 
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  In return for making this code available, we would appreciate that you cite the following publications:

* Barnich and M. Van Droogenbroeck. ViBe: A universal background subtraction algorithm for video sequences. In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(6):1709-1724, June 2011. 

* M. Van Droogenbroeck and O. Barnich. ViBe: A Disruptive Method for Background Subtraction. In T. Bouwmans, F. Porikli, B. Hoferlin, and A. Vacavant, editors, Background Modeling and Foreground Detection for Video Surveillance, chapter 7. Chapman and Hall/CRC, June 2014.

BiBTeX format (see "vibe.bib" file): 

@article{Barnich2011ViBe,
  title = {{ViBe}: A universal background subtraction algorithm for video sequences},
  author = {O. Barnich and M. {Van Droogenbroeck}},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
  volume = {20},
  number = {6},
  pages = {1709-1724},
  month = {June},
  year = {2011},
  pdf = {http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/bitstream/2268/81248/1/Barnich2011ViBe.pdf},
  doi = {10.1109/TIP.2010.2101613},
  url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2268/81248} 
}

@incollection{VanDroogenbroeck2014ViBe,
  title = {{ViBe}: A Disruptive Method for Background Subtraction},
  author = {M. {Van Droogenbroeck} and O. Barnich},
  booktitle = {Background Modeling and Foreground Detection for Video Surveillance},
  editor = {T. Bouwmans and F. Porikli and B. Hoferlin and A. Vacavant},
  chapter = {7},
  pages = {7.1-7.23},
  month = {July},
  year = {2014},
  publisher = {Chapman and Hall/CRC},
  doi = {10.1201/b17223-10},
  url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2268/157176},
  pdf = {http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/bitstream/2268/157176/1/VanDroogenbroeck2014ViBe.pdf}
}



