This research’s main objective is to study and evaluate the detection and removal of undesired shadows from still images since these shadows might mask important information caused by light sources and other obstructions. A variety of methods for detecting and eliminating shadows as well as object tracking approaches based on movement estimation and identification are investigated. This includes shadow removal methods like background subtraction, which are intended to improve obstacle recognition of the source item and increase the accuracy of shadow removal from objects. When new items enter the frame, they are first distinguished from the background using a reference frame. The tracking procedure is made more difficult by the merging of the shadow with the foreground object. The approach highlights the difficulties in object detection owing to frequent occurrences of obstacles by using morphological procedures for shadow identification and removal. The proposed approach uses feature extraction is also discussed, highlighting its importance in image processing research and the use of suggested methods to get over obstacles in image sequences. The proposed method for shadow identification and removal offers a novel approach to improve image processing when dealing with still images. The purpose of this technique is to better detect and remove shadows from images, which will increase the precision of object tracking and detection. Depending on the type of images being processed, the process begins with initializing a background model, which is based on a static image background.

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