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Skin Region Extraction Using Color Information and Skin-Color Model  

Park, Sung-Wook (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Incheon)
Park, Jong-Kwan (Dept. of Information & Communications, Yuhan College)
Park, Jong-Wook (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Incheon)
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전자공학회논문지 IE / v.45, no.4, 2008 , pp. 60-67 More about this Journal
Abstract
Skin color is a very important information for an automatic face recognition. In this paper, we proposed a skin region extraction method using color information and skin color model. We use the adaptive lighting compensation technique for improved performance of skin region extraction. Also, using an preprocessing filter, normally large areas of easily distinct non skin pixels, are eliminated from further processing. And we use the modified ST color space, where undesired effects are reduced and the skin color distribution fits better than others color space. Experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance than the conventional methods, and reduces processing time by $35{\sim}40%$ on average.
Keywords
Skin-Color Detection; Normalized RGB; Skin-Color Filtering; ST-Color space; TSL;
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