Automatic facial skin segmentation based on EM algorithm under varying illumination

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E91-D, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1543-1551

  Shamsi, Mousa ^a   Zoroofi, Reza Aghaiezadeh ^b   Lucas, Caro ^b   Hasanabadi, Mohammad Sadeghi ^c   Alsharif, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Color space; EM algorithm; Facial skin detection; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FACE RECOGNITION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

COLOR SPACE; EM ALGORITHMS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FACIAL SKIN; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; ROBUST PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 68149157933     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e91-d.5.1543     Document Type: Article

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