Texture Analysis for Shadow Removing and Tracking of Vehicle in Traffic Monitoring System

Video-based surveillance and measuring have been employed more and more widely in traffic monitoring system because of the rich information content contained in video. The vehicles need to be segmented from the video images, the result of vehicles segmentation using background subtraction is not only vehicles but also shadows of vehicles, a method of shadow removing based on texture analysis is presented in this paper. After that, we present a method of tracking of vehicles based on mapping the texture feature. Our method of shadow removing and tracking using texture analysis is simple and efficient.