Increasing the reliability of skin detectors

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 5, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2480-2490

  Taqa, Alaa Y ^a   Jalab, Hamid A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Back propagation ANN; Image segmentation; Image texture features; Skin detector; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049517978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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