Does colorspace transformation make any difference on skin detection?

Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 275-279

  Shin, M C ^a   Chang, K I ^b   Tsap, L V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Face detection; Face recognition; Histograms; Image databases; Laboratories; Lighting; Pixel; Robustness; Skin

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FACE RECOGNITION; LABORATORIES; LIGHTING; PIXELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SKIN;

CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS; HISTOGRAMS; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; IMAGE DATABASE; LARGE DATASET; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SKIN DETECTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84906355606     PISSN: 21583978     EISSN: 21583986     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACV.2002.1182194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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