Title :
A new color based method for skin detection using RGB vector space
Author :
Aznaveh, Mohsen Mahmoudi ; Mirzaei, Hamidreza ; Roshan, Emitis ; Saraee, Mohamadhosein
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Dept., Isfahan Univ. of Technol., Tehran
Abstract :
This paper describes a new method for skin detection based on RGB vector space. Skin color has proven to be a useful cue for pre-process of face detection, localization and tracking. Image content filtering, content aware video compression and image color balancing applications can also benefit from automatic detection of skin in images. Numerous works for skin color segmentation and detection have been reported in the literature in the last few years. In this paper first few pixel based methods are presented and then Vector calculations as an efficient approach for determination of skin area based on implicit mathematical model is proposed. In order to evaluate our method we performed an experimental study. Results obtained are very promising and shows important advantages over other techniques.
Keywords :
image colour analysis; image resolution; object detection; vectors; RGB vector space; content aware video compression; image color balancing; image content filtering; skin detection; Cameras; Color; Face detection; Filtering; Image segmentation; Mathematical model; Robustness; Skin; Space technology; Video compression; Color segmentation; RGB vector space; color space; image processing; model selection; skin detection;
Conference_Titel :
Human System Interactions, 2008 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Krakow
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1542-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1543-4
DOI :
10.1109/HSI.2008.4581568