An algorithm is developed to detect moving object and suppress shadow. According to motion variations caused by some moving objects in a scene, a background update approach is proposed. The developed update method ef- ficiently prevents undesired corruption of background and does not consider the adaptation coefficient or the learning rate used in some existing algorithms. A multi-scale wavelet transform methodology is used to segment foreground from a clut- ter background. The optimal selection of threshold value is automatically determined which does not require any complex supervised training or manual calibration. According to photometric invariant, a color ratio difference is proposed to sup- press shadow. Some complete foreground motion object regions are extracted by integrating moving object segmentation in the multi-scale wavelet with shadow suppression in the color ratio difference. The mentioned method is less affected by the presence of moving objects in a scene. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is efficient in detecting motion objects and suppressing shadows by comparisons.
