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Shadow Elimination Mimicking the Human Visual System

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Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 266))

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Shadow elimination is required especially when processing images captured outdoors for object recognition. Whereas room lights make diffuse shadows, the sunlight makes strong shadows leading to misrecognition of objects or some patterns such as humans or traffic signs. To remove this harmful effect of shadows on image processing, we developed a simple algorithm mimicking a human psychological characteristic about shadow detection.

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Kamada, T., Hanazawa, A., Morie, T. (2010). Shadow Elimination Mimicking the Human Visual System. In: Hanazawa, A., Miki, T., Horio, K. (eds) Brain-Inspired Information Technology. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04025-2_25

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