Colour segmentation under illumination fluctuations

• Main Author: Ngoi, Kian Peng.
• Other Authors: Teoh, Eam Khwang
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/19797
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In low level image analysis of a 3D scene, illumination effects like shadows, shading, inter reflections and highlights can severely degrade system performance. These effects create erroneous edges and regions in traditional Intensity based methods and complicate higher level recognition process. In this thesis, colour segmentation is used to minimise these illumination fluctuations without a priori knowledge and models of complex geometrical shapes.