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Shadow Elimination Mimicking the Human Visual System

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Brain-Inspired Information Technology

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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  1. Department of Brain Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, 808-0196, Japan

    Takuji Kamada, Akitoshi Hanazawa & Takashi Morie

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  1. Department of Brain Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Life Science and System Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Hibikino 2-4,Wakamatsu, 808-0196, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

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  2. Department of Brain Science and Engineering , Graduate School of Life Science and System Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Hibikino 2-4,Wakamatsu, 808-0196, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

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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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