A Look-Up-Table based skin color segmentation method

Author

Yu Wang ; Xiangmin Xu ; Xiaoshi Chen ; Xiaobo Jiang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2014

fDate

9-13 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A novel and real time FPGA skin color segmentation method is presented in this paper. Since most of the traditional skin segmentation methods have the problems of relatively large delay and complexity, they are not fit for real-time applications. To settle this problem, this paper proposes to use the Look-Up-Table (LUT) method for skin segmentation which has very fast operation speed. The method is implemented on an FPGA device modeled by Verilog HDL and targeted for Altera DE2-70 board. 17 ALUTs and 1024 bits of memory are used, when the FPGA system is running at a pixel rate of 27MHz. This skin color segmentation method can be used in many kinds of non-touch and real-time human computer interactive systems.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; image segmentation; skin; table lookup; Altera DE2-70 board; FPGA device; FPGA skin color segmentation method; LUT method; Verilog HDL; human computer interactive systems; look-up-table methhod; operation speed; Color; Field programmable gate arrays; Fitting; Hardware design languages; Image color analysis; Skin; Table lookup; FPGA; Look-Up-Table; Skin segmentation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics - China, 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE-China.2014.7029894

Filename

7029894