A fusion approach for efficient human skin detection

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 138-147

  Tan, Wei Ren ^a   Chan, Chee Seng ^a   Yogarajah, Pratheepan ^b   Condell, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color space; dynamic threshold; fusion strategy; skin detection

Indexed keywords

2-D HISTOGRAMS; COLOR IMAGES; COLOR SPACE; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC THRESHOLD; FUSION STRATEGIES; FUSION STRATEGY; GAUSSIAN MODEL; HUMAN SKIN; HUMAN SKIN DETECTION; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; SKIN DETECTION; SKIN MODEL; SKIN-COLOR DETECTION; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

DETECTORS;

EID: 84856325864     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2011.2172451     Document Type: Article

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