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Efficient Skin Detection under Severe Illumination Changes and Shadows

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Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011)

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This paper presents an efficient method for human skin color detection with a mobile platform. The proposed method is based on modeling the skin distribution in a log-chromaticity color space which shows good invariance properties to changing illumination. The method is easy to implement and can cope with the requirements of real-world tasks such as illumination variations, shadows and moving camera. Extensive experiments show the good performance of the proposed method and its robustness against abrupt changes of illumination and shadows.

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Khanal, B., Sidibé, D. (2011). Efficient Skin Detection under Severe Illumination Changes and Shadows. In: Jeschke, S., Liu, H., Schilberg, D. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25489-5_59

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