ROBUST HUMAN SKIN DETECTION IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS

Ehsan Fazl Ersi, John Zelek

2006

Abstract

Skin detection has application in people retrieval, face detection/tracking, hand detection/tracking and more recently on face recognition. However, most of the currently available methods are not robust enough for dealing with some real-world conditions, such as illumination variation and background noises. This paper describes a novel technique for skin detection that is capable of achieving high performance in complex environments with real-world conditions. Three main contributions of our work are: (i) processing each pixel in different brightness levels for handling the problem of illumination variation, (ii) proposing a fast and simple method for incorporating the neighborhood information in processing each pixel, and (iii) presenting a comparative study on thresholding the skin likelihood map, and employing a local entropy technique for binarizing our skin likelihood map. Experiments on a set of real-world images and the comparison with some state-of-the-art methods validate the robustness of our method.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fazl Ersi E. and Zelek J. (2006). ROBUST HUMAN SKIN DETECTION IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 27-34. DOI: 10.5220/0001376300270034

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp06,
author={Ehsan Fazl Ersi and John Zelek},
title={ROBUST HUMAN SKIN DETECTION IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={27-34},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001376300270034},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,
TI - ROBUST HUMAN SKIN DETECTION IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Fazl Ersi E.
AU - Zelek J.
PY - 2006
SP - 27
EP - 34
DO - 10.5220/0001376300270034