On-chip skin detection for color CMOS imagers

Proceedings - International Conference on MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems, ICMENS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 357-361

  Boussaid, F ^a   Chai, D ^a   Bouzerdoum, A ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromium; Circuits; CMOS image sensors; CMOS process; Face detection; Humans; Image segmentation; Skin; Target tracking; Very large scale integration

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FACE RECOGNITION; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NANOSENSORS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PIXELS; SKIN; TARGET TRACKING; VLSI CIRCUITS;

CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; CMOS PROCESSS; HIGH-SPEED PROCESSING; HUMANS; LOW-POWER OPERATION; NORMALIZED RGB COLOR SPACE; ON-CHIP INTEGRATION; PIXEL CLASSIFICATION;

COLOR;

EID: 84877974983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMENS.2003.1222024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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