The Shadow People

The shadow.

The Shadow Meets the Mask: Pyramid-Based Shadow Removal

In this paper we propose a novel method for detecting and removing shadows from a single image thereby obtaining a high-quality shadow-free image. With minimal user assistance, we first identify shadowed and lit areas on the same surface in the scene using an illumination-invariant distance measure. These areas are used to estimate the parameters of an affine shadow formation model. A novel pyr...

Running from the shadow: psychological distancing from others to deny characteristics people fear in themselves.

Four experiments tested the hypothesis that people distance themselves from others who display characteristics they fear in themselves. In Study 1, participants were given false feedback that they were high or low in repressed anger and were given information about a person who became angry and responded in a violent or nonviolent manner. High anger feedback participants distanced themselves on...

Graphic Shadow: Augmenting Your Shadow on the Floor

This paper proposes real-time interactive systems illuminating your shadows cast on the floor, which we name “Graphic Shadow.” They will make you experience an exciting space of interaction performing an illusion on your own shadow.

Shadow detection for vehicles by locating the object-shadow boundary

We introduce in this paper a shadow detection method for vehicles in traffic video sequences. Our method approximates the boundary between vehicles and their associated shadows by one or more straight lines. These lines are located in the image by exploiting both local information (e.g. statistics in intensity differences) and global information (e.g. principal edge directions). The proposed me...