Research Article

A Hybrid Vision-Map Method for Urban Road Detection

Figure 3

Partial results during the shadow detection. The process generates an illuminant invariant image and also an image with the illumination of the scene. The use of both images makes the system able to detect the shadows of the scene.
(a) Original image of the scene
(b) Illuminant invariant image
(c) Illumination of the scene
(d) Shadow detection