Background segmentation in multicolored illumination environments

摘要

We present an algorithm for the segmentation of images into background and foreground regions. The proposed algorithm utilizes a physically based formulation of scene appearance which explicitly models the formation of shadows originating from color light sources. This formulation enables a probabilistic model to distinguish between shadows and foreground objects in challenging images. A key component of the proposed method is an algorithm for estimating the illumination arriving at the scene. We evaluate our algorithm using synthetic and real-world data and show that the proposed method performs favorably against other commonly used segmentation methods.