Object detection in images

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2004-11-08

2010-06-22

Lu, Tom Y (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Image enhancement or restoration

Object boundary expansion or contraction

C382S265000, C382S173000, C382S275000, C382S180000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07742650

ABSTRACT:
A segmentation operation is applied to an input image to identify foreground objects of interest, and then a shadow removal operation is applied to remove any detected shadows from the foreground segmentation. The shadow removal algorithms can leave holes and bisections in the segmentation map, however, which will then subsequently impact on an object detection step performed using connected component analysis. To get around this problem, a conditional morphological dilation operation is applied to the segmentation map to ‘grow’ the segmented blobs to fill in any holes and bisections, without re-growing shadow pixels in the segmentation. The result is an object detection method and system which is robust to illumination changes causing shadows and/or highlights.

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