Survey of skin color detection

Jisuanji Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Computers

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 194-207

  Chen, Duan Sheng ^a,b   Liu, Zheng Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Reflection model; Skin color detection; Skin color modeling; Skin spectrum

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPLICATIONS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTERNET; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

REFLECTION MODEL; SKIN COLOR DETECTION; SKIN COLOR MODELING; SKIN SPECTRUM;

SKIN;

EID: 33645646721     PISSN: 02544164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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