PHOTOGRAPHS WITHOUT SHADOWS

Detecting Ground Shadows in Outdoor Consumer Photographs

Detecting shadows from images can significantly improve the performance of several vision tasks such as object detection and tracking. Recent approaches have mainly used illumination invariants which can fail severely when the qualities of the images are not very good, as is the case for most consumer-grade photographs, like those on Google or Flickr. We present a practical algorithm to automat...

Shadows.

We investigate the brightness distribution in and around outdoor shadows (for a variety of sky conditions) using modeling and field measurements. The dominant factor influencing the brightness of a shadow is the solid angle subtended by the object blocking the Sun. Occulters at the zenith that subtend a small solid angle cast shadows that are bright and possess a nearly uniform brightness acros...

Shadows.

It is almost 160 years since Dr James McDonnell delivered an address to the students entering the Belfast General Hospital. Since that time it has fallen upon a member of this staff to welcome those students who have commenced their first year in the clinical branches of medicine. This year it is my privilege and honour to address and welcome you on behalf of the medical and dental staff of thi...

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Induction The dance of shadows

Statistics stems out from induction. Induction is a long lasting notion in philosophy. The nature of notions in philosophy are such that neither they can be solved completely nor one can leave them forever. One of the most important problem in induction is “the problem of induction”. In this paper we give a short history of induction and discuss some aspects of the problem of induction.