Remove People Using Running Median of Frames

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Hello,

I am trying to take the people out of a video, leaving only the background. The background cannot have any holes in it. I have tried some methods of background subtraction and filling in the holes with some image repair techniques, but those do not work super well or are really slow. I also made some code to do moving averaging across the frames and that works okay, but it leaves some blur. Now I am trying to take the median across frames. This is different from a median filter. I am hoping that if I take the median of the previous 40 or so frames, the people will be removed.

Code so far:

import numpy as np
import cv2 as cv

 cap = cv.VideoCapture('/home/matthew/Downloads/Cam2_Indoor.avi')
 framecount = cap.get(cv.CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT)
 print framecount
 buff = cap.get(cv.CAP_PROP_BUFFERSIZE)
 print buff
 frames = []
 index = cap.get(cv.CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES)



print index

 #while(1):
 for _ in range(241, 295):
     ret, frame = cap.read()
     index = cap.get(cv.CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES)
     print index

 setbuff = cap.set(cv.CAP_PROP_BUFFERSIZE, 40)

     median = np.median(frame, axis=2).astype(dtype=np.uint8)    
     cv.imshow('frame', median)


     k = cv.waitKey(30) & 0xff
     if k == 27:
         break
 cap.release()
 cv.destroyAllWindows()

Thank you for the help. This code works but it doesn't work like I want it to. I want it to continuously take the previous for images and take the median across the frames. This code here does not seem to be taking the median at all. Link to video: [http://iselab.cvc.uab.es/silverage.ph...]

video is on the page, called cam2_indoor.zip. I'm not a super great python programmer, so I'm trying to keep the code simple for now. Thanks!