Common use of SHADOW REMOVAL Clause in Contracts

SHADOW REMOVAL. MODULE (a) A Video Scene (b) Moving Blobs The shadow removal module implements the algorithm described in Section 5.3. Although the authors employed a relatively simple algorithm for shadow identification and elimination, this process is still computationally expensive because of the edge detection and morphological operations involved. In the current implementation, the image region where edge detection and morphological operations are applied is limited to the area in each bounding box. This cuts down the computational time significantly and enables online applications of the VVDC system. Figure 6-9 illustrates the shadow removal process for the white van shown in Figure 6-8. If the vehicle region is smaller than a given threshold value after shadow removal, then the moving object will not be counted as a vehicle. After shadow removal, the vehicle region is passed to the vehicle classification module for length measurement and classification.