Research on human silhouette detection methods for a non-cooperative biometric system

Together with the development of effective and efficient people identification algorithms, biometric authentication systems become increasingly popular and widespread, leading to a significant growth in the number of institutions interested in implementing and using such systems. Although, several research works focused their efforts on these type of solutions, none of the commonly available systems provide a non-cooperative approach to object identification. For this reason, they are not suitable for use in some specific situations, such as people entering the stadium. Therefore, we decided to go up against these limitations and develop biometric identification system for less constrained scenarios. In this paper, we present an evaluation of different algorithms suitable for human silhouette detection in such environment. We focus on investigating their effectiveness and performance under unconstrained conditions, such as different lighting.