Illumination-invariant color space and its application to skin-color detection

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Ukil ^a   Kim, Bongjoe ^a   Toh, Kar Ann ^a   Sohn, Kwanghoon ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

illumination invariant color space; image acquisition model; Lambertian surface; skin color detection

Indexed keywords

COLOR SPACE; COLOR VARIATIONS; DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING; EMPIRICAL EXPERIMENTS; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; INVARIANT PROPERTIES; LAMBERTIAN SURFACES; SKIN-COLOR DETECTION; STABLE STATE; VISION-BASED APPLICATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE ACQUISITION;

COLOR;

EID: 78049483260     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3497058     Document Type: Article

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