The detection of moving objects in a scene is a well researched but depending on the concrete research still often a challenging computer vision task. Usually it is the first step in a whole pipeline and all following algorithms (tracking, classification etc.) are dependent on the accuracy of the detection. Hence, a good pixel-precise segmentation of the objects of interest is mandatory for many applications. However, the underwater environment has mostly been neglected so far and there exists no common dataset to evaluate different algorithms under the harsh underwater conditions and therefore a comprehensive evaluation is impossible. In this paper, we present an underwater change detection dataset consisting of five videos and hundreds of handsegmented ground truth images as well as a survey of different underwater image enhancement techniques and their impact on segmentation algorithms

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Foreground-background segmentation in videos is an important low-level task needed for many different applications in computer vision. Therefore, a great variety of different algorithms have been proposed to deal with this problem, however none can deliver satisfactory results in all circumstances. Our approach combines an efficent novel Background Substraction algorithm with a higher order Markov Random Field (MRF) which can model the spatial relations between the pixels of an image far better than a simple pairwise MRF used in most of the state of the art methods. Afterwards, a runtime optimized Belief Propagation algorithm is used to compute an enhanced segmentation based on this model. Lastly, a local between Class Variance method is combined with this to enrich the data from the Background Substraction. To evaluate the results the difficult Wallflower data set is used.