Moving Shadow Removal Based on ILT

Moving shadows cause serious problem while segmenting and extracting foreground from video sequences, due to the misclassification of moving shadow as foreground. In order to detect the moving objects accurately, this paper proposes to remove the moving shadows based on the similarity between little textured patches. The potential shadow points are detected by analyzing the intensity and color properties firstly, and then, the shadow detection approach is improved by evaluating the textural similarity between the current frame and the corresponding background model. Experiment results on both indoor and outdoor scenes exhibit that the proposed method succeeds in removing shadows robustly and achieves the real-time performance.