A fast skin region detector for colour images

IEE Conference Publication

Volumn , Issue 2005-10882, 2005, Pages 195-201

  Chen, Lihui ^a   Grecos, Christos ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lighting Compensation; Morphological Operations; Normalized RGB Colour Space; Skin Colour Filter; Skin Colour Modelling

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SKIN;

LIGHTING COMPENSATION; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; NORMALIZED RGB COLOR SPACE; SKIN COLOR FILTER; SKIN COLOR MODELING;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 27744558498     PISSN: 05379989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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