Skin color detection through estimation and conversion of illuminant color under various illuminations

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1103-1108

  Do, Hyun Chul ^a   You, Ju Yeon ^a   Chien, Sung Il ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Illuminant color conversion; Illuminant color estimation; Skin color detection

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; FACE RECOGNITION; PIXELS;

COLOR CONVERSION; COLOR DETECTION; COLOR ESTIMATION; ILLUMINANT COLOR;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 35348874770     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2007.4341592     Document Type: Article

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