Characterization of a 0.18 μm CMOS color processing scheme for skin detection

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1471-1474

  Xiaojin, Zhao ^b   Boussaid, Farid ^a,c   Bermak, Amine ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

CMOS imager; On chip processing; Skin detection; Triple well CMOS process

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DEMODULATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MICROSENSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CMOS COLOR PROCESSING SCHEMES; CMOS IMAGERS; ON CHIP PROCESSING; REAL TIME SKIN DETECTIONS; SKIN DETECTIONS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34748847971     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2007.907028     Document Type: Article

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