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Texture-Based Shadow Removal from a Single Color Image

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2008)

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Shadows can often be found in images and videos acquired under strong directional lighting, such as those taken outdoors on a sunny day. Shadows can cause many difficulties in image processing and vision-related tasks, such as image segmentation and object recognition. Therefore, shadow removal is needed for improving the performance of these image understanding tasks. We present a new shadow removal algorithm for a singe texture color image. Intra-image textures are popular and frequently influenced by shadow. Through intra-image texture matching and deconvolution on derivative maps of original image with zero values set in shadow edge positions, we can recover shadow free images. The experimental results on real-world data show good performance of this algorithm.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences, Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, MS 38941, USA

    Qiang He

  2. The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, USA

    Chee-Hung Henry Chu

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Fatih Porikli

  7. Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box, FL 32611-6120, Gainsville, USA

    Jörg Peters

  8. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, NY 10532, Hawthorne, USA

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  10. Denver Museum of Nature and Space, 2001 Colorade Blvd. Denver,, CO 80205, USA

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  11. Departmen of Computer Science,, NC State University, Campus Box 8206, NC 27695-8206, Raleigh, USA

    Theresa-Marie Rhyne

  12. Los Alamos National Labs, P.O. Box 1663, NM 87545, Los Alamos, USA

    Laura Monroe

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He, Q., Chu, CH.H. (2008). Texture-Based Shadow Removal from a Single Color Image. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5359. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89646-3_63

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