Insignificant shadow detection for video segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1058-1064

  Xu, Dong ^a   Liu, Jianzhuang ^b   Li, Xuelong ^c   Liu, Zhengkai ^a   Tang, Xiaoou ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insignificant shadow detection; Multiframe integration; Region growing; Video segmentation

Indexed keywords

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

INSIGNIFICANT SHADOW DETECTION; MULTIFRAME INTEGRATION; REGION GROWING; VIDEO SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 25144465898     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2005.852402     Document Type: Article

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