Cast Shadow Removal in a Real-Time Environment

Abstract

The cast shadows on the background of the object will distinctly affect the recognition of the foreground objects. Due to the limitation of shadow removal methods utilizing texture, a novel algorithm based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and HSV color space is proposed. Firstly, moving regions are detected using GMM. Secondly, we make two pre-classifiers accurate and adaptive to the change of shadow by using the features of shadow in RGB and HSV color space. Experimental results show that the proposed method is efficient and robust.