The Use of Color Features in Automatic Video Surveillance Systems
Stefano Piva, Marcella Spirito, and Carlo S. Regazzoni

24.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................
24.2 Automatic Vision-Based Monitoring Systems ........................................................................
       24.2.1 Color AVS Systems Logical Tasks .............................................................................
       24.2.2 Color Features in AVS Systems ...............................................................................
24.3 Color-Based Processing in Video Surveillance Applications ........................................................
       24.3.1 Low-Level Algorithms: Filtering and Shadow Removal .....................................................
       24.3.2 Medium-Level Algorithms: Object Tracking .................................................................
       24.3.3 High-Level Algorithms: Classification and Grouped People Splitting .....................................
24.4 Conclusions ..............................................................................................................
References .....................................................................................................................