A pedestrian segmentation algorithm in the presence of cast shadows is presented in this study. The novelty of this algorithm lies in the fusion of multi‐view and multi‐plane homographic projections of foregrounds and the use of the fused data to guide colour clustering. This brings about an advantage over the existing binocular algorithms in that it can remove cast shadows while keeping pedestrians’ body parts, which occlude shadows. Phantom detection, which is inherent with the binocular method, is also investigated. Experimental results with real‐world videos have demonstrated the efficiency of this algorithm.
Vertical projection histograms are an efficient shape representation for 2D binary silhouettes and have been widely used in pedestrian localisation for video surveillance. The weakness of this method is that it is not invariant to rotation. In this Letter, a generalised vertical projection histogram is proposed to solve this problem, in which the homology transformations of the foreground silhouettes, for a set of parallel planes, are warped to, and accumulated, in the original foreground map. Then a method, similar to the vertical projection histogram, is carried out to localise the pedestrians in the foreground silhouettes. The algorithm applies an integrated approach using both image projection and geometric projection. Its value is demonstrated in a case study on pedestrian localisation with cast shadows.
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