A shadow resistant tracking method for outdoor scene

Shadows bring many problems in object tracking because of the appearance's change caused by illumination variation. In this paper, we present a shadow-resistant tracking method for the objects in outdoor scene based on a new shadow invariant transformation. Our method includes 3 steps: shadow detecti on and verification, shadow invariant transformation for image sequence and shadow resistant tracking. Our method can be applied in both the still background scene and the dynamic scene; the experiment results validate the performance of our method.