Authors:
Csaba Benedek
1
and
Tamás Szirányi
2
Affiliations:
1
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
;
2
Distributed Events Analysis Research Group, Computer and Automation Institute, Hungary
Keyword(s):
Shadow, color spaces, MRF.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Image and Video Analysis
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Segmentation and Grouping
;
Software Engineering
;
Statistical Approach
;
Video Analysis
Abstract:
In this paper we address the problem of appropriate modelling of shadows in color images. While previous works compared the different approaches regarding their model structure, a comparative study of color models has still missed. This paper attacks a continuous need for defining the appropriate color space for this main surveillance problem. We introduce a statistical and parametric shadow model-framework, which can work with different color spaces, and perform a detailed comparision with it. We show experimental results regarding the following questions: (1) What is the gain of using color images instead of grayscale ones? (2) What is the gain of using uncorrelated spaces instead of the standard RGB? (3) Chrominance (illumination invariant), luminance, or ”mixed” spaces are more effective? (4) In which scenes are the differences significant? We qualified the metrics both in color based clustering of the individual pixels and in the case of Bayesian foreground-background-shadow seg
mentation. Experimental results on real-life videos show that CIE L*u*v* color space is the most efficient.
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