Automatic facial skin detection using Gaussian Mixture Model under varying illumination

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1135-1144

  Hossain, Md Foisal ^a   Shamsi, Mousa ^b   Alsharif, Mohammad Reza ^a   Zoroofi, Reza A ^c   Yamashita, Katsumi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Facial skin detection; Gaussian mixture model; Skin models; Varying illumination

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGES; COLOR INFORMATION; FACIAL IMAGES; FACIAL SKIN; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; ILLUMINATION ESTIMATION; NORMAL CONDITION; PARTIAL OCCLUSIONS; SKIN COLOR; SKIN DETECTION; SKIN MODEL; SKIN MODELS; SKIN-COLOR INFORMATION; SKIN-COLOR SEGMENTATION; SURGICAL PLANNING;

COLOR; FACE RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84856959273     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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