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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTB.2005.12B.4.395

A New Shadow Removal Method using Color Information and History Data  

Choi Hye-Seung (나인정보(주))
Wang Akun (명지대학교 정보통신공학과)
Soh Young-Sung (명지대학교 정보공학과)
Abstract
Object extraction is needed to track objects in color traffic image sequence. To extract objects, we use background differencing method based on MOG(Mixture of Gaussians). In extracted objects, shadows may be included. Due to shadows, we may not find exact location of objects and sometimes we find adjacent objects are glued together. Many methods have been proposed to remove shadows. Conventional methods usually assume that color and texture information are preserved under the shadow. Thus these methods do not work well if these assumptions do not hold. In this paper, we propose a new robust shadow removal method which works well in those situations. First we extract shadow pixel candidates by analysing color information and compute the ratio of shadow pixel candidates over the total number of Pixels. W the ratio is reasonable, we remove shadow candidate Pixels and if not, we use data in history array containing Previous removal records. We applied the method to real color traffic image sequences and obtained good results.
Keywords
Object Extraction; Shadow Removal; Background Differencing;
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