AUTOMATIC SKIN DETECTION TECHNIQUE FOR COLOR IMAGES

10th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference - SGEM2010, www.sgem.org, SGEM2010 Conference Proceedings/ ISBN 10: 954-91818-1-2, June 20-26, 2010, Vol. 1, 1047-1052 pp

ABSTRACT

We propose a skin detection approach that works for digital color images. First, we
make an introduction in this image analysis domain, mentioning the most important
human skin identification techniques. Then, we provide a pixel-based skin color
detection technique for RGB images. Our approach performs the identification of skin
regions using conversions between color spaces and formulating a set of restrictions on
the color components. Some experiments, proving the effectiveness of the proposed
method, are also described in this paper.

Keywords: color image, skin detection, color space, RGB, HSV, YCr Cb