Human skin color detection in RGB space with Bayesian estimation of beta mixture models

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1204-1208

  Ma, Zhanyu ^a   Leijon, Arne ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ESTIMATION METHODS; BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; HUMAN SKIN; IMAGE DATABASE; MIXTURE MODEL; PIXEL VALUES; POINT ESTIMATE; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; POSTERIOR MEANS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; RGB SPACE; SKIN SEGMENTATION; SKIN-COLOR DETECTION; VARIATIONAL INFERENCE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84863807861     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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