Shadow detection for moving objects based on texture analysis

This paper presents a new approach for shadow detection of moving objects in visual surveillance environment, improving localization, segmentation, tracking and classification of detected objects. An automatic segmentation procedure based on adaptive background difference is performed in order to detect potential shadow points so that, for all moving pixels, the approach evaluates the compatibility of photometric properties with shadow characteristics. The shadow detection approach is improved by evaluating the similarity between little textured patches, since shadow regions present same textural characteristics in each frame and in the corresponding adaptive background model. In this work we suggest a new approach to describe textural information in terms of redundant systems of functions. The algorithm is designed to be unaffected by scene type, background type or light conditions. Experimental results validate the algorithm's performance on a benchmark suite of indoor and outdoor video sequences. (c) 2006 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.