Adaptive Skin Segmentation Using Color Distance Map

In this paper an effective approach for segmenting human skin regions in images taken at different environment is proposed. The proposed method uses a color distance map that is flexible enough to reliably detect the skin regions even if the illumination conditions of the image vary. Local image conditions is also focused, which help the technique to adaptively detect differently illuminated skin regions of an image. Moreover, usage of local information also helps the skin detection process to get rid of picking up much noisy pixels.

Authors:

• Mohammad Shoyaib
• M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud
• Oksam Chae

Keywords:

• Color Distance map
• Reference skin color
• Regiongrowing
• Skin segmentation.

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