Shadow and Noise Suppression

Since the adaptive background subtraction lacks capability to remove shadows, it is recommended using the approach described by Cucchiara (2003) to evaluate whether a foreground pixel corresponds to cast shadow based on the Hue Saturation Value (HSV) colour information. The chromaticity and luminosity of the foreground pixels are separated using the HSV colour space which is proved to match the human perception of colour more closely than the RGB model (Herodotou, 1998). The method proposed by Cucchiara et al assumes that shadows reduce surface brightness and saturation while maintaining chromaticity properties in the HSV colour space.

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