Distribution of the Size and Number of Shadows Cast on a Line Segment in aPoisson Random Field

摘要

The present paper presents algorithms for the computation of the distributions ofthe number and lengths of shadows cast on a line segment by random obscuring elements, when there is one source of light (in the origin), and the obscuring elements are realized according to a Poisson random field. These algorithms have applications in problems of line of sight, target detection, image processing and others.