Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces

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 computat...

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Main Authors:	Al-Tairi, Zaher Hamid, Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza, Saripan, M. Iqbal, Sulaiman, Puteri Suhaiza
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Published:	Korea Information Processing Society 2014
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35392/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35392/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35392/

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spelling	upm-353922016-01-06T03:37:35Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35392/ Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces Al-Tairi, Zaher Hamid Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza Saripan, M. Iqbal Sulaiman, Puteri Suhaiza 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. Korea Information Processing Society 2014 Article PeerReviewed Al-Tairi, Zaher Hamid and Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza and Saripan, M. Iqbal and Sulaiman, Puteri Suhaiza (2014) Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces. Journal of Information Processing Systems, 10 (2). pp. 283-299. ISSN 1976-913X; ESSN: 2092-805X http://jips-k.org/q.jips?cp=pp&pn=314 10.3745/JIPS.02.0002
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description	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.
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author	Al-Tairi, Zaher Hamid Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza Saripan, M. Iqbal Sulaiman, Puteri Suhaiza
spellingShingle	Al-Tairi, Zaher Hamid Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza Saripan, M. Iqbal Sulaiman, Puteri Suhaiza Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces
author_facet	Al-Tairi, Zaher Hamid Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza Saripan, M. Iqbal Sulaiman, Puteri Suhaiza
author_sort	Al-Tairi, Zaher Hamid
title	Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces
title_short	Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces
title_full	Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces
title_fullStr	Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces
title_full_unstemmed	Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces
title_sort	skin segmentation using yuv and rgb color spaces
publisher	Korea Information Processing Society
publishDate	2014
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35392/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35392/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35392/
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Skin segmentation using YUV and RGB color spaces

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