Findcontours() no working correctly in background subtraction

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Hi,

I am trying to obtain the foreground objects from the background using background subtraction model. There will only be a person walking in foreground whom I have to track and draw a bounding box around him. I have written following code for the same.

The Background subtraction works properly when findcontours() function is not added. However on using the function findcontours() function, the background model obtained does not give proper output. Please help me.

without findcontours()

with findcontours()

#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>
#include "opencv2/imgcodecs.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/videoio.hpp"
#include <opencv2/highgui.hpp>
#include <opencv2/video.hpp>
#include <stdio.h>
//C++
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

RNG rng(12345);

// Global variables
Mat frame; //current frame
Mat fgMaskMOG2; //fg mask fg mask generated by MOG2 method
Mat frame_check;
Ptr<BackgroundSubtractor> pMOG2; //MOG2 Background subtractor
int keyboard; //input from keyboard

//void processVideo(char* videoFilename);
void processVideo();
void processImages(char* firstFrameFilename);

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{

    //create GUI windows
    namedWindow("Frame");
    namedWindow("FG Mask MOG 2");
    //create Background Subtractor objects
    pMOG2 = createBackgroundSubtractorMOG2();

    VideoCapture capture(0);

    if (!capture.isOpened()){
        //error in opening the video input
        cerr << "Unable to open video file: " << endl;
        system("pause");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    //read input data. ESC or 'q' for quitting
    while ((char)keyboard != 'q'){
        //read the current frame
        if (!capture.read(frame)) {
            cerr << "Unable to read next frame." << endl;
            cerr << "Exiting..." << endl;
            system("pause");
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }
        //update the background model
        pMOG2->apply(frame, fgMaskMOG2);
        frame_check = fgMaskMOG2.clone();

        //process here

        //morphological opening (remove small objects from the foreground)
        erode(frame_check, frame_check, getStructuringElement(MORPH_ELLIPSE, Size(5, 5)));
        dilate(frame_check, frame_check, getStructuringElement(MORPH_ELLIPSE, Size(5, 5)));

        ////morphological closing (fill small holes in the foreground)
        dilate(frame_check, frame_check, getStructuringElement(MORPH_ELLIPSE, Size(5, 5)));
        erode(frame_check, frame_check, getStructuringElement(MORPH_ELLIPSE, Size(5, 5)));


        vector<vector<Point> > contours;
        vector<Vec4i> hierarchy;

        /// Detect edges using Threshold
        //threshold(frame_check, frame_check, 100, 255, THRESH_BINARY);
        //find contours
        findContours(frame_check, contours, hierarchy, CV_RETR_TREE, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE, Point(0, 0));

        /// Approximate contours to polygons + get bounding rects and circles
        //vector<vector<Point> > contours_poly(contours.size());
        //vector<Rect> boundRect(contours.size());

        ////approximate contours by rectangles
        //for (int i = 0; i < contours.size(); i++)
        //{
        //  approxPolyDP(Mat(contours[i]), contours_poly[i], 3, true);
        //  boundRect[i] = boundingRect(Mat(contours_poly[i]));
        //}

        ////draw bounded recatangles
        //Mat drawing = Mat::zeros(frame_check.size(), CV_8UC3);
        //Scalar color = Scalar(rng.uniform(0, 255), rng.uniform(0, 255), rng.uniform(0, 255));

        //for (int i = 0; i< contours.size(); i++)
        //{
        //  //drawContours(drawing, contours_poly, i, color, 1, 8, vector<Vec4i>(), 0, Point());
        //  rectangle(drawing, boundRect[i].tl(), boundRect[i].br(), color, 2, 8, 0);
        //  //circle(drawing, center[i], (int)radius[i], color, 2, 8, 0);
        //}

        imshow("Frame", frame);
        imshow("FG Mask MOG 2", frame_check);
        //get the input from the keyboard
        //keyboard = waitKey(30);
        keyboard = waitKey(1000);
    }
    //delete capture object
    capture.release();
    system("pause");



    //destroy GUI windows
    destroyAllWindows();
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
void processVideo() {


}