Human skin color detection: A review on neural network perspective

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 8115-8131

  Al Mohair, Hani K ^a   Mohamad Saleh, Junita ^a   Suandi, Shahrel Azmin ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Color space; Neural networks; Skin color detection

Indexed keywords

COLOR SPACE; EFFECTIVE TOOL; HUMAN SKIN; HUMAN SKIN DETECTION; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; NETWORK-BASED; SKIN COLOR; SKIN DETECTION; SKIN-COLOR DETECTION; SKIN-COLOR INFORMATION; TECHNIQUES USED;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84870266099     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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