A new colour space for skin tone detection

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 497-500

  Cheddad, Abbas ^a   Condell, Joan ^a   Curran, Kevin ^a   Mc Kevitt, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour transform; Luminance; Skin tone detection; Steganography

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; STEGANOGRAPHY;

COLOUR SPACES; D-SPACE; DIGITAL IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY; EMBEDDING PROCESS; ERROR SIGNAL; EXISTING METHOD; GRAY SCALE; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SKIN COLOUR; SKIN TONE DETECTION;

COLOR;

EID: 77951967835     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413947     Document Type: Conference Paper

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