Consistent image-based measurement and classification of skin color

Copyright 2005 IEEE. Published in the 2005 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2005), September 11-14, 2005, Genoa, Italy. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission to reprint/republish for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works, must be obtained from the IEEE. Contact: Manager, Copyrights and Permissions / IEEE Service Center / 445 Hoes Lane / P.O. Box 1331 / Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA. Telephone: + Intl. 732-562-3966. Little prior image processing work has addressed estimation and classification of skin color in a manner that is independent of camera and illuminant. To this end, we first present new methods for 1) fast, easy-to-use image color correction, with specialization toward skin tones, and 2) fully automated estimation of facial skin color, with robustness to shadows, specularities, and blemishes...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICIP
• Authors: H. Harlyn Baker, Michael Harville, Nina Bhatti, Sabine Süsstrunk
• Keywords: Copyright 2005 Ieee, Easy-to-use Image Color, Facial Skin Color, ICIP 2005, Image Processing, Prior Image Processing, Skin Color