Removal of non-uniform complex and compound shadows from textured surfaces using adaptive directional smoothing and the thin plate model

IET Image Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 233-248

  McFeely, R ^a   Hughes, C ^a,b   Jones, E ^a   Glavin, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b VALEO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL FILTERS; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGE SURFACE; MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCE; NOVEL ALGORITHM; SHADOW REMOVAL; SINGLE IMAGES; SIZE AND SHAPE; TEXTURED SURFACE; THIN PLATE; USER INTERVENTION;

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT SOURCES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

SURFACES;

EID: 79959710342     PISSN: 17519659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2009.0198     Document Type: Article

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