Automatic Skin Pixel Selection and Skin Color Classification

Copyright 2005 IEEE. Published in the 2006 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2006), October 8-11, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission to reprint/republish for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works, must be obtained from the IEEE. Contact: Manager, Copyrights and Permissions / IEEE Service Center / 445 Hoes Lane / P.O. Box 1331 / Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA. Telephone: + Intl. 732-562-3966. We describe an automatic, low-cost method for classifying skin color, independent of lighting and imaging device characteristics, using consumer digital cameras and a simple color calibration target. After color normalization and face detection are performed as described in prior work, pixels within the face region are clustered in color space in an unsupervised fashion, and a Gaussian mix...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICIP
• Authors: Sangho Yoon, Michael Harville, H. Harlyn Baker, Nina T. Bhatti
• Keywords: Color Calibration Target, Exemplar Face Images, ICIP 2006, Image Processing, Skin Color, Skin Color Classification, Skin Color Labels