Publication
Chromatic shadow detection and tracking for moving foreground segmentation
Journal Article (2015)
Journal
Image and Vision Computing
Pages
42–53
Volume
41
Doc link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2015.06.003
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Abstract
Advanced segmentation techniques in the surveillance domain deal with shadows to avoid distortions when detecting moving objects. Most approaches for shadow detection are still typically restricted to penumbra shadows and cannot cope well with umbra shadows. Consequently, umbra shadow regions are usually detected as part of moving objects, thus affecting the performance of the final detection. In this paper we address the detection of both penumbra and umbra shadow regions. First, a novel bottom-up approach is presented based on gradient and colour models, which successfully discriminates between chromatic moving cast shadow regions and those regions detected as moving objects. In essence, those regions corresponding to potential shadows are detected based on edge partitioning and colour statistics. Subsequently (i) temporal similarities between textures and (ii) spatial similarities between chrominance angle and brightness distortions are analysed for each potential shadow region for detecting the umbra shadow regions. Our second contribution refines even further the segmentation results: a tracking-based top-down approach increases the performance of our bottom-up chromatic shadow detection algorithm by properly correcting non-detected shadows. To do so, a combination of motion filters in a data association framework exploits the temporal consistency between objects and shadows to increase the shadow detection rate. Experimental results exceed current state-of-the-art in shadow accuracy for multiple well-known surveillance image databases which contain different shadowed materials and illumination conditions.
Categories
computer vision.
Author keywords
detecting moving objects; chromatic shadow detection; temporal local gradient; spatial and temporal brightness and angle distortions; shadow tracking
Scientific reference
I. Huerta, M.B. Holte, T. Moeslund and J. Gonzàlez. Chromatic shadow detection and tracking for moving foreground segmentation. Image and Vision Computing, 41: 42–53, 2015.
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