Human skin detection using defined skin region

Skin detection has been widely used in image processing application. Several skin detection methods have been introduced including defined skin region. Overall, skin detection has been challenged by the fact that skin appearance in the image can be affected by many factors including ethnicity thus r...

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Main Authors: Jati, H., Dominic P, Dhanapal Durai
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2008
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http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/105/1/paper.pdf
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description Skin detection has been widely used in image processing application. Several skin detection methods have been introduced including defined skin region. Overall, skin detection has been challenged by the fact that skin appearance in the image can be affected by many factors including ethnicity thus reducing its accuracy. This study aims (i) to obtain the skin detection model by ascertaining the threshold values of human skin color model and (ii) to evaluate the skin detection model among ethnicities and to evaluate the accuracy of the model by comparing the model in human and animal skin. The results of our study show that the value of skin parameter is not different among ethnicities. We also found that using this method, animal skin was often misinterpreted as human skin. This problem should be particularly addressed in the future work. © 2008 IEEE.
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spelling oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:1052017-01-19T08:26:31Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/105/ Human skin detection using defined skin region Jati, H. Dominic P, Dhanapal Durai QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Skin detection has been widely used in image processing application. Several skin detection methods have been introduced including defined skin region. Overall, skin detection has been challenged by the fact that skin appearance in the image can be affected by many factors including ethnicity thus reducing its accuracy. This study aims (i) to obtain the skin detection model by ascertaining the threshold values of human skin color model and (ii) to evaluate the skin detection model among ethnicities and to evaluate the accuracy of the model by comparing the model in human and animal skin. The results of our study show that the value of skin parameter is not different among ethnicities. We also found that using this method, animal skin was often misinterpreted as human skin. This problem should be particularly addressed in the future work. © 2008 IEEE. 2008 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/105/1/paper.pdf Jati, H. and Dominic P, Dhanapal Durai (2008) Human skin detection using defined skin region. In: International Symposium on Information Technology 2008, ITSim, 26 August 2008 through 29 August 2008, Kuala Lumpur.
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Jati, H.
Dominic P, Dhanapal Durai
Human skin detection using defined skin region
title Human skin detection using defined skin region
title_full Human skin detection using defined skin region
title_fullStr Human skin detection using defined skin region
title_full_unstemmed Human skin detection using defined skin region
title_short Human skin detection using defined skin region
title_sort human skin detection using defined skin region
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
url http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/105/
http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/105/1/paper.pdf