Shadow removal from textured images

Qiang He; Chee-Hung Henry Chu

doi:10.1117/12.818983

28 April 2009 Shadow removal from textured images

Qiang He, Chee-Hung Henry Chu

Proceedings Volume 7307, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications VI; 73070P (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.818983
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2009, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Shadows and shadings are typical natural phenomena, which can often be found in images and videos acquired under strong directional lighting, such as those taken outdoors on a sunny day. Unfortunately, shadows can cause many difficulties in image processing and vision-related tasks, such like image segmentation and object recognition. Therefore, shadow removal is needed for improving the performance of these image understanding tasks. We present a new shadow removal algorithm for real textured color images. The algorithm is based on the statistical property of textures in images. The experimental results on real-world data are shown to demonstrate this algorithm.

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Qiang He and Chee-Hung Henry Chu "Shadow removal from textured images", Proc. SPIE 7307, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications VI, 73070P (28 April 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.818983

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