Title
Study On Color Space Selection For Detecting Cast Shadows In Video Surveillance
Abstract
In this article, the authors address the color modeling problem of cast shadows in video sequences. It is illustrated that the performance of shadow detection can be improved significantly through appropriate color space selection, if for practical purposes, the number of free parameters of the method should be kept low. Hence, the authors compare several well known color spaces with a six-parameter shadow model embedded into a globally optimal MRF framework. Experimental results are shown 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? The authors qualified the metrics both in color based clustering of the individual pixels and in the case of Bayesian foreground-background-shadow segmentation. Expertmental results on real-life videos show that CIE L*u*v* color space is the most efficient. (c) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1002/ima.20110
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMAGING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
Keywords
Field
DocType
video surveillance, shadow detection, color spaces, MRF
Computer vision,Color space,Color histogram,Computer science,RGB color space,Color depth,Color balance,RGB color model,Artificial intelligence,Color normalization,Color image
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
3
0899-9457
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.74
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Csaba Benedek119321.31
Tamás Szirányi215226.92