Pixel-based skin color detection technique

Machine Graphics and Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-70

  Zaqout, Ihab ^a,b   Zainuddin, Roziati ^a   Baba, Sapian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Artificial Intelligence Lab   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Face detection; Heuristic rules; Histogram based approach; Lookup table; Skin segmentation

Indexed keywords

FACE DETECTION; HEURISTIC RULES; HISTOGRAM-BASED APPROACH;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TABLE LOOKUP;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 29744466370     PISSN: 12300535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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