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Learning Background and Shadow Appearance with 3-D Vehicle Models ? Matthew J. Leotta Joseph L. Mundy Division of Engineering, Brown University Providence, RI, USA {mleotta,mundy}@lems.brown.edu Abstract This paper presents a novel algorithm for simultaneous background ap- pearance modeling and coarse-scale vehicle recognition in traffic surveil- lance applications. 3-d mesh models representing a small set of vehicle classes are used to the hypothesize image segmentations into background, shadow, and vehicle regions. The algorithm optimizes vehicle class and mo- tion parameters to best agree w