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In almost all computer vision applications moving objects detection is the crucial step for information extraction. Shadows and ghosts will often introduce errors that will certainly effect the performance of computer vision algorithms, such as object detection, tracking and scene understanding. This paper studies various methods for shadows and ghost detection and proposes a novel user-aided approach for texture preserving shadows and ghost removal from surveillance video. The proposed algorithm addresses limitations in uneven shadow and ghost boundary processing and umbra recovery. This approach first identifies an initial shadow/ghost boundary by growing a user specified shadow outline on an illumination-sensitive image. Interval-variable pixel intensity sampling is introduced to eliminate anomalies, raised from unequal boundaries. This approach extracts the initial scale field by applying local group intensity spline fittings around the shadow boundary area. Bad intensity samples are substituted by their nearest intensities based on a log-normal probability distribution of fitting errors. Finally, it uses a gradual colour transfer to correct post-processing anomalies such as gamma correction and lossy compression.
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Narayana, I.L., Vasavi, S., Rao, V.S. (2015). User Aided Approach for Shadow and Ghost Removal in Robust Video Analytics. In: Satapathy, S., Govardhan, A., Raju, K., Mandal, J. (eds) Emerging ICT for Bridging the Future - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Convention of the Computer Society of India CSI Volume 2. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 338. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13731-5_15
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