Birnam Woods, Moving Closer, Shadows Our Work

Moving closer to the movement

Robots Moving Closer to Humans

the PRISMA Lab in the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering at University of Naples Federico II. He is the Past-President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Professor Bruno Siciliano is a Fellow of IEEE, ASME and IFAC. His research interests include force and visual control, human-robot interaction and service robotics. He has co-authored 7 books, 70 journal papers and 170 co...

Learning Moving Cast Shadows for Foreground Detection

We present a new algorithm for detecting foreground and moving shadows in surveillance videos. For each pixel, we use the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to learn the behavior of cast shadows on background surfaces. The pixelbased model has the advantages over regional or global model for their adaptability to local lighting conditions, particularly for scenes under complex illumination conditions...

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...

Detecting Moving Shadows: Formulation, Algorithms and Evaluation

Moving shadows need careful consideration in the development of robust dynamic scene analysis systems. Moving shadow detection is critical for accurate object detection in video streams, since shadow points are often misclassified as object points causing errors in segmentation and tracking. Many algorithms have been proposed in the literature that deal with shadows. However, a comparative eval...