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ICIP
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A dynamic threshold approach for skin segmentation in color images
: This paper presents a novel dynamic threshold approach to discriminate skin pixels and non-skin pixels in color images. Fixed decision boundaries (or fixed threshold) classificat...
Yogarajah Pratheepan, Joan Condell, Kevin Curran, ...
BMVC
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Skin Color Weighted Disparity Competition for Hand Segmentation from Stereo Camera
Hand segmentation is the basis of many vision-based hand gesture applications in human computer interaction (HCI). This paper proposes a novel method of skin color weighted dispar...
Qi Wang, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao
MVA
2002
261views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2002»
14 years 3 days ago
Detecting Faces in Color Images Using an Adaptive Color Model and Salient Features
Face detection has many interesting applications such as a face recognition system, a surveillance system, and videolimage indexing system. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
Hang-Bong Kang
FGR
1998
IEEE
208views Biometrics» more  FGR 1998»
14 years 4 months ago
Locating Facial Region of a Head-and-Shoulders Color Image
This paper addresses our proposed method to automatically locate the person's face from a given image that consists of a head-and-shoulders view of the person and a complex b...
Douglas Chai, King N. Ngan
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Skin Detection in Video under Changing Illumination Conditions
Techniques for color-based tracking of faces or hands often assume a static skin color model. However, skin color perceived by a camera can change when lighting changes. In common...
Maricor Soriano, Birgitta Martinkauppi, Sami Huovi...
AVBPA
2003
Springer
134views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 2003»
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Face-Tracking Using Skin Color and Facial Shape
This paper proposes a robust face tracking algorithm based on the CONDENSATION algorithm that uses skin color and facial shape as observation measures. Two independent trackers are...
Hyung-Soo Lee, Daijin Kim, Sang-Youn Lee
ISCAS
2003
IEEE
115views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2003»
14 years 5 months ago
An efficient color compensation scheme for skin color segmentation
Skin color is a useful means for human face detection. In this paper, we propose an efficient color compensation method for skin color segmentation under varying lighting conditio...
Kwok-Wai Wong, Kin-Man Lam, Wan-Chi Siu
AUSAI
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
New Fuzzy Skin Model for Face Detection
Abstract. We discuss the face detection method by using skin information. Skin color has proven to be a useful and robust cue for face detection, localization and tracking. Numerou...
Moon Hwan Kim, Jin Bae Park, Young Hoon Joo
FGR
2006
IEEE
112views Biometrics» more  FGR 2006»
14 years 6 months ago
Self Correcting Tracking for Articulated Objects
Hand detection and tracking play important roles in human computer interaction (HCI) applications, as well as surveillance. We propose a self initializing and self correcting trac...
M. Baris Caglar, Niels da Vitoria Lobo
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Improving Face Verification Using Skin Color Information
The performance of face verification systems has steadily improved over the last few years, mainly focusing on models rather than on feature processing. State-of-the-art methods o...
Sébastien Marcel, Samy Bengio