Removing shadows using flash/noflash image edges

2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2006 - Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 257-260

  Drew, Mark S ^a   Lu, Cheng ^a   Finlayson, Graham D ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; NOISE ABATEMENT; PIXELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

AMBIENT-SHADOW REGION; COLOR SPACE; FLASH/NOFLASH PAIRS; SHADOWS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34247597451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2006.262431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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