A method to segment moving vehicle cast shadow based on wavelet transform

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2182-2188

  Fang, Liu Zhi ^a,b   Qiong, Wang Yun ^c   Sheng, You Zhi ^a,b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory of Fundamental Synthetic Vision Graphics and Image for National Defense   (China)

^c Yun Nan Normal University   (China)

Author keywords

Cast shadow; Occluding function; Shadow detection; Shadow segmentation; Shadow spectral property

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CAST SHADOW; OCCLUDING FUNCTION; SHADOW DETECTION; SHADOW SEGMENTATION; SHADOW SPECTRAL PROPERTY;

VEHICLES;

EID: 53949094330     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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