Skin color-based video segmentation under time-varying illumination

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 862-877

  Sigal, Leonid ^a   Sclaroff, Stan ^b   Athitsos, Vassilis ^b  

^a Brown Univerity   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color video segmentation; Dynamic Markov model; Human skin detection

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SKIN; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

COLOR VIDEO SEGMENTATION; HUMAN SKIN DETECTION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 3042632061     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.35     Document Type: Article

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