A hybrid neural network Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for skin color segmentation

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 848-856

  Razmjooy, Navid ^a   Mousavi, B Somayeh ^b   Soleymani, F ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Imperialist competitive algorithm; Morphological processing; Skin detection

Indexed keywords

COLOR SEGMENTATION; COLOR SPACE CONVERSION; COMPETITIVE ALGORITHMS; CONTENT-BASED ANALYSIS; FACE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION; HIGH-QUALITY SOLUTIONS; HUMAN BODIES; HYBRID NEURAL NETWORKS; ICA ALGORITHMS; MINIMUM COST; MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA DATABASE; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PEOPLE DETECTION; RGB COLOR SPACE; SKIN DETECTION; SKIN-COLOR DETECTION; SKIN-COLOR SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; FACE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84870507890     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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