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In this paper: Human Body Tracking by Adaptive Background Models and Mean-Shift Analysis Section 3, the authors mention about luminance ratio thresholds for brightness and darkness (r1, r2). Can anyone suggest what should the values be?

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You have them explained in this paper, sections 4.2 and 4.3.

I usually prefer to post self-contained answers, but this topic is not easy to understand without reading the whole paper.

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Thanks for pointing the paper: A statistical approach for real-time robust background subtraction and shadow detection ... one doubt: in equation (6) shouldn't it be sqrt(sum of squares) ? –  Kaushik Acharya Jun 5 '11 at 9:18

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