Abstract

This paper presents an efficient approach for moving objects detection and shadow removal from color videos obtained using stationary camera. A background subtraction technique based on modified adaptive GMM has been proposed for detecting moving objects. Speed-up techniques have also been applied to enhance the computational efficiency of the algorithm. Then, a robust algorithm for shadow removal is used to remove cast shadows and ghosts. Foreground is reconstructed using graph cut based cleaning and non-recursive blob finding. Comparative experimental results demonstrate that proposed approach performs better in comparison to other state-of-the-art algorithms.

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