Cast shadow segmentation using invariant color features

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 238-259

  Salvador, Elena ^a   Cavallaro, Andrea ^b   Ebrahimi, Touradj ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color image analysis; Segmentation; Shadow detection; Video object extraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COLOR IMAGE ANALYSIS; SHADOW DETECTION; VIDEO OBJECT EXTRACTION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 3042731359     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2004.03.008     Document Type: Article

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