  Low-rank and sparse decomposition based methods find their use in many
applications involving background modeling such as clutter suppression and
object tracking. While Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) has achieved
great success in performing this task, it can take hundreds of iterations to
converge and its performance decreases in the presence of different phenomena
such as occlusion, jitter and fast motion. The recently proposed deep unfolded
networks, on the other hand, have demonstrated better accuracy and improved
convergence over both their iterative equivalents as well as over other neural
network architectures. In this work, we propose a novel deep unfolded
spatiotemporal RPCA (DUST-RPCA) network, which explicitly takes advantage of
the spatial and temporal continuity in the low-rank component. Our experimental
results on the moving MNIST dataset indicate that DUST-RPCA gives better
accuracy when compared with the existing state of the art deep unfolded RPCA
networks.
