Skin detection on color images
M.U. Khomyakov

Full text of article: Russian language.

Abstract:
Skin detection performance metrics were developed. Popular color spaces comparison was performed with the use of threshold chose as skin color model: RGB, YCbCr, HSV, CIE Lab. 2D color spaces influence on skin detection performance was estimated.

Key words:
skin color, face detection, color space comparison.

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