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Intelligent traffic surveillance systems are assuming an increasingly important role in highway monitoring and city road management systems. Recently a novel feature was proposed to improve the accuracy of object localization and occlusion handling. It was constructed on the basis of the strong shadow under the vehicle in real-world traffic scene. In this paper, we use some statistical parameters of each frame to detect and segment these shadows. To demonstrate robustness and accuracy of our proposed approach, impressive results of our method in real traffic images including high congestion, noise, clutter, snow, and rain containing cast shadows, bad illumination conditions and occlusions, taken from both outdoor highways and city roads are presented.
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Mosabbeb, E.A., Sadeghi, M., Fathy, M. (2007). A New Approach for Vehicle Detection in Congested Traffic Scenes Based on Strong Shadow Segmentation. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4842. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76856-2_42
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