A shadow is detected if the pixel is a darker version of the background. The shadow threshold (``Tau`` in the paper) is a threshold defining how much darker the shadow can be. ``Tau= 0.5`` means that if a pixel is more than twice darker then it is not shadow. See Prati, Mikic, Trivedi and Cucchiarra, *Detecting Moving Shadows...*, IEEE PAMI,2003.
A shadow is detected if pixel is a darker version of the background. The shadow threshold (``Tau`` in the paper) is a threshold defining how much darker the shadow can be. ``Tau= 0.5`` means that if a pixel is more than twice darker then it is not shadow. See Prati, Mikic, Trivedi and Cucchiarra, *Detecting Moving Shadows...*, IEEE PAMI,2003.