Block histogram-based neural fuzzy approach to the segmentation of skin colors

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1737-1752

  Juang, Chia Feng ^a   Perng, Hwai Sheng ^a   Chiu, Shih Hsuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy neural network; Fuzzy systems; Histogram based model; Irregular space partition; Mixture of Gaussian model; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

GAUSSIAN MODEL; HISTOGRAM BASED MODELS; IRREGULAR SPACE PARTITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36348992634     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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