An illumination invariant skin-color model for face detection

Ukil Yang; Minsung Kang; Kar Ann Toh; Kwanghoon Sohn

doi:10.1109/BTAS.2010.5634474

An illumination invariant skin-color model for face detection

Ukil Yang, Minsung Kang, Kar Ann Toh, Kwanghoon Sohn

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Face detection is an important step towards a fully automatic face recognition system. Among existing techniques in the literature, methods based on skin-color information have shown computational effectiveness as well as robustness in terms of rotation, scaling and partial occlusion. However, due to color variations resulted from illumination changes, many color-based techniques have yet to demonstrate a stable state of performance. In this paper, we present an illumination invariant color space model to address the color variation issue. The proposed method is evaluated both in terms of skin-color detection and face detection performances. Our empirical experiments evidenced both effectiveness and usefulness of the proposed method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE 4th International Conference on Biometrics
Subtitle of host publication	Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BTAS.2010.5634474
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	4th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2010 - Washington, DC, United States Duration: 2010 Sept 27 → 2010 Sept 29

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Other	4th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2010
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City	Washington, DC
Period	10/9/27 → 10/9/29

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Computational Theory and Mathematics
Theoretical Computer Science

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Yang, U, Kang, M, Toh, KA & Sohn, K 2010, An illumination invariant skin-color model for face detection. in IEEE 4th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2010., 5634474, IEEE 4th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2010, 4th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2010, Washington, DC, United States, 10/9/27. https://doi.org/10.1109/BTAS.2010.5634474

An illumination invariant skin-color model for face detection. / Yang, Ukil; Kang, Minsung; Toh, Kar Ann et al.
IEEE 4th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2010. 2010. 5634474 (IEEE 4th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2010).

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