Automatic and robust shadow segmentation from two-dimensional scenes

Tien Tzu Hsueh Pao/Acta Electronica Sinica

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 624-627

  Guan, Ye Peng ^a   Gu, Wei Kang ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Segmentation; Shadow detection; Threshold value

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPONENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BLUE COMPONENTS; HISTOGRAMS; HSV COLOR SPACE; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; RGB COLOR SPACE; SHADOW DETECTION; THRESHOLD VALUE; TWO DIMENSIONAL SCENES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33745780354     PISSN: 03722112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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