When the correlation coefficient calculated falls below a threshold, a ‘1’ will be

stored in the map array.

Figure 1. map.jpg Figure 2. map1.jpg

Figure 1 - Mapping image of human bodies after correlation

Figure 2 - Mapping image of human bodies after removing small clusters

Figure 3. map2.jpg – Mapping matrix after applying median filter

Multiplying the mapping matrix (map2.jpg) with the original image with humans
yields the result (output.jpg)
Figure 4. output.jpg – Final Result
Appendix - Matlab Code
clear all; clc;
imgNoHuman = imread('IMG_2699_Back.bmp');
imgHuman = imread('IMG_2699.bmp');
figure;
subplot(2,2,1); imshow(imgNoHuman)
subplot(2,2,2); imshow(imgHuman)

[x y z] = size(imgNoHuman);
f1 = rgb2gray(imgNoHuman);
f2 = rgb2gray(imgHuman);
imwrite(f1, 'f1.jpg');
imwrite(f2, 'f2.jpg');

g1 = double(f1(:,:,1));
g2 = double(f2(:,:,1));
corr2(g1,g2);

map = zeros(x,y);
cor = zeros(x,y);

% determine correlation of the 2 images

const = 1;
i = 1+const;
j = 1+const;

% calculate the correlation of each pixel (size of 3x3 matrix is used)

while i <= x-const,
j = 1+const;
while j <= y-const,
h1 = g1(i-const:i+const,j-const:j+const);
h2 = g2(i-const:i+const,j-const:j+const);
cor(i,j) = corr2(h1,h2);
% cor(i-const:i,j-const:j) = corr2(h1,h2);
if cor(i,j) < 0.45
map(i,j) = 1;
end
j = j+const;
end
i = i+const;
end
figure;imshow(map);
imwrite(map, 'map.jpg');

map1 = bwareaopen(map, 240);

imwrite(map1, 'map1.jpg');

% median filter applied to remove salt and pepper noise in map1 array
map2 = medfilt2(map1,[10,10]);
figure;imshow(map2)
imwrite(map2, 'map2.jpg');

% multiply map with original image to get original colour

output(:,:,1) = double(imgHuman(:,:,1)) .* map2;
output(:,:,2) = double(imgHuman(:,:,2)) .* map2;
output(:,:,3) = double(imgHuman(:,:,3)) .* map2;
% fill background with the colour white
for i = 1:1:x
for j = 1:1:y
if map2(i,j) == 0
output(i,j,1:3) = [255, 255, 255];
end
end
end
imwrite(uint8(output),'output.jpg');
figure;imshow(uint8(output))