A robust skin color based face detection algorithm

Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 227-234

  Singh, Sanjay Kr ^a   Chauhan, D S ^b   Vatsa, Mayank ^c   Singh, Richa ^c  

^a Institute of Engineering and Technology   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Color Space; Face Detection; Feature Extraction; Skin Color Classification; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOTION ESTIMATION; SKIN;

COLOR SPACE; FACE DETECTION; SKIN COLOR CLASSIFICATION; THRESHOLDING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 2942630102     PISSN: 15606686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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