• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.231-239
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• 2005

This paper describes a new algorithm for pixel-based skin color detection to differentiate human form in color images by the ratio of R to H. In order to detect skin color efficiently, we examine the distribution of the R, G and B color elements combining to constitute the skin color in various color images. It shows that R is located in a narrower area than G and B on the RGB color space. And skin color is more related to R than G and B. Meanwhile, when the color image is transformed to the HSI color space, the S is variously changed in accordance with skin colors. The I is changed in accordance with the quantity and angle of light. But the H is less influenced by other conditions except for color. On the basis of the aforementioned study, we propose that the threshold for skin color detection is decided by the ratio of R to H. The proposed method narrows down the range of threshold, detects more skin color and reduces mis-detection of skin color in comparison to detection by R or H. In experimentation. it shows that the proposed algorithm overcomes changes of brightness and color to detect skin color in color images.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.153-156
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• 2005

Skin region detection in images is an important process in many computer vision applications targeting humans such as hand gesture recognition and face identification. It usually starts at a pixel-level, and involves a pre-process of color spae transformation followed by a classification process. A color space transformation is assumed to increase separability between skin classes and other classes, to increase similarity among different skin tones, and to bring a robust performance under varying imaging conditions, without any complicated analysis. In this paper, we examine if the color space transformation actually brings those benefits to the problem of skin region detection on a set of human hand images with different postures, backgrounds, people, and illuminations. Our experimental results indicate that color space transfomation affects the skin detection performance. Although the performance depends on camera and surround conditions, normalized [R, G, B] color space may be a good choice in general.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2009

올바른 피부색 검출은 사람의 얼굴 검출 및 동작 분석에서 매우 중요한 전처리과정에 속한다. 피부 검출은 일반적으로 화소의 칼라 공간을 Non-RGB로 변형하고, 피부색의 조명 요소를 제거한 다음 피부색 분포 모델에 의해 Skin과 Non-Skin으로 분류하는 3단계로 진행된다. 이는 피부색 검출이 칼라 공간, 조명 요소의 존재 여부, 피부 모델링 방법에 따라 수행 성능에 많은 영향을 받기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 조명 조건에 따라 피부색 모델의 범위에 차이가 있다는 사실에 기초하여 다양한 조명 조건과 복잡한 배경을 가진 영상에서 효과적으로 다인종의 피부색을 분류해내 기 위한 3차원 피부색 모델을 제시하고자 한다. 제안된 피부색 모델은 화소의 칼라 공간을 YCbCr공간으로 변형하고, 각 요소(Y, Cb, Cr) 값에 의한 3차원 피부색 모델을 형성한다. 다인종의 피부색을 함께 분할하기 위해 인종(백인, 흑인, 황인)별 피부색 모델을 먼저 생성한 후 각각의 모델에서 피부색 확률에 따라 결합한 다인종을 위한 통합 모델을 생성하였다. 또한 우리는 적은 양의 훈련 데이터로 피부색 영역을 올바르게 검출할 수 있도록 여러 단계의 피부색 영역을 설정하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(3)
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• pp.173-176
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• 2002

This paper describes an implementation of fast face detection algorithm. This algorithm can robustly detect human faces with unknown sizes and positions in complex backgrounds. This paper provides a powerful face detection algorithm using skin color segmenting. Skin Color is modeled by a Gaussian distribution in the HSI color space among different persons within the same race, Oriental. The main feature of the Algorithm is achieved face detection robust to illumination changes and a simple adaptive thresholding technique for skin color segmentation is employed to achieve robust face detection.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.283-299
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• 2014

Skin detection is used in many applications, such as face recognition, hand tracking, and human-computer interaction. There are many skin color detection algorithms that are used to extract human skin color regions that are based on the thresholding technique since it is simple and fast for computation. The efficiency of each color space depends on its robustness to the change in lighting and the ability to distinguish skin color pixels in images that have a complex background. For more accurate skin detection, we are proposing a new threshold based on RGB and YUV color spaces. The proposed approach starts by converting the RGB color space to the YUV color model. Then it separates the Y channel, which represents the intensity of the color model from the U and V channels to eliminate the effects of luminance. After that the threshold values are selected based on the testing of the boundary of skin colors with the help of the color histogram. Finally, the threshold was applied to the input image to extract skin parts. The detected skin regions were quantitatively compared to the actual skin parts in the input images to measure the accuracy and to compare the results of our threshold to the results of other's thresholds to prove the efficiency of our approach. The results of the experiment show that the proposed threshold is more robust in terms of dealing with the complex background and light conditions than others.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.10-15
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• 2012

In conventional, skin detection methods using for skin color definitions is based on prior knowledge. By experimentation, the threshold value for dividing the background from the skin region is determined subjectively. A drawback of such techniques is that their performance is dependent on a threshold value which is estimated from repeated experiments. To overcome this, the present paper introduces a skin region detection method. This method uses a histogram approximation based on the mean shift algorithm. This proposed method applies the mean shift procedure to a histogram of a skin map of the input image. It is generated by comparing with the standard skin colors in the $C_bC_r$ color space. It divides the background from the skin region by selecting the maximum value according to the brightness level. As the histogram has the form of a discontinuous function. It is accumulated according to the brightness values of the pixels. It is then, approximated by a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) using the Bezier curve technique. Thus, the proposed method detects the skin region using the mean shift procedure to determine a maximum value. Rather than using a manually selected threshold value, as in existing techniques this becomes the dividing point. Experiments confirm that the new procedure effectively detects the skin region.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.350-356
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• 2017

실시간 인체 검출에 대한 관심이 높아짐에 따라 피부색을 통한 인체 검출에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 하지만 대다수 기존 피부 탐지 방법은 정적인 피부색 모델을 이용하기 때문에 색 왜곡이 발생한 영상에서 낮은 탐지율을 보인다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 경사도 맵과 채도, YCbCr 공간의 Cb, Cr 요소를 퍼지로 분류하는 방법을 사용하여 피부영역을 탐지하는 기법을 제시한다. 제안하는 방법의 기본적인 절차는 경사도 맵 생성, 채도 맵 생성, CbCr 맵 생성, 퍼지 분류, 피부영역 이진화 순이다. 이 방법은 색상 이외의 특징을 이용하여 조명, 인종, 나이, 개인차 등에 상관없이 강건하게 피부를 탐지하는 것에 중점을 두고 있다. 색상 이외의 피부 특징은 비피부영역과의 경계가 모호하여 구분이 명확하지 않다. 이를 해결하기 위해 경사도, 채도와 색상 특징간의 관계를 소속함수로 정의하고 이를 이용하여 108가지의 퍼지 규칙을 생성하여 피부영역을 탐지한다. 제안한 방법의 검출 정확도는 86.35%로 기존 방법보다 2~5 % 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2014

Usually, the skin pigmentation detection and diagnosis are made by clinicians. In this process it is subjective and non-quantitative. We develop an approach to detect and measure the different pigmentation lesions base on computer vision technology. In the paper we study several usually used skin-detecting color space like HSV, YCbCr and normalized RGB. We compare their performance with illumination influence for detecting the pigmentation lesions better. Base on a relatively stable color space, we propose an approach which is RGB channels vector difference characteristic for the detection. After the object region detection, we also use the difference to measure the difference between the lesion and the surrounding normal skin. From the experiment results, our approach can effectively detect the pigmentation lesion, and perform robustness with different illumination.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.127-130
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• 2007

화상 통신과 보안 시스템에서 얼굴 인식을 위한 얼굴영역을 검출하는 연구가 대두되며, 이러한 연구의 전 처리 단계로써 YCbCr 색 좌표계에서 색 정보를 이용하여 피부영역만을 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. CbCr 색 정보를 이용한 기존의 피부 영역 검출 알고리즘의 경우, 실외나 카메라 풀래시를 사용하였을 때 반사광에 의해 밝게 나타난 피부 영역에서 검출 손상이 발생하는 문제점이 나타났다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 어떠한 환경에서도 피부색만을 정확하게 검출하기 위해 기존의 알고리즘을 개선하여 Cb, Cr 뿐만 아니라 Y(Luminance) 값까지 모두 고려한 3-channel 구조의 피부 검출 시스템을 제안한다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.427-435
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• 1997

Conditional sampling techniques are utilized to investigate the relation between the wall skin-friction and stream wise velocity fluctuations in a turbulent boundary layer. Conditionally averaged results using a peak detection and the VITA (variable-interval time-averaging) technique show that a high skin friction is associated with high frequency components of the wall skin-friction fluctuations. The conditionally averaged wall skin-friction fluctuations obtained by using the VITA technique have a positively-skewed characteristics compared with the conditionally averaged stream wise velocity fluctuations. It is confirmed that there exists a phase shift between the wall skin-friction and stream wise velocity fluctuations, which was also found from the long-time averaged space-time correlations. The amount of phase shift between the wall skin-friction and stream wise velocity fluctuations is the same as that from the long-time averaged space-time correlations and does not change despite the variation of the detection threshold.