Comparison of skin color detection and tracking methods under varying illumination

J. Birgitta Martinkauppi; Maricor N. Soriano; Matti Pietikäinen

doi:10.1117/1.2142307

1 October 2005 Comparison of skin color detection and tracking methods under varying illumination

J. Birgitta Martinkauppi, Maricor N. Soriano, Matti Pietikäinen

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 14, Issue 4, 043014 (October 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2142307

Abstract

When skin areas such as faces and hands are imaged under natural environments their color appearance is frequently affected by variations in illumination intensity and chromaticity. In color-based skin tracking and detection, changing intensity is often dismissed either with the use of normalized, intensity-invariant color coordinates or by additionally modeling possible skin intensities. Chromaticity variations are rarely considered, although they are common in practice. In most approaches considering chromaticity, the experiments are done with a small or undefined variation range. It is difficult to compare different approaches and assess their applicability range for this reason. To improve the situation, we evaluate the performance of four state-of-the-art methods under drastic but practically common illumination changes. The effect of illumination chromaticity for skin is clearly defined, and based on it we draw conclusion about the performance of these approaches.

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J. Birgitta Martinkauppi, Maricor N. Soriano, and Matti Pietikäinen "Comparison of skin color detection and tracking methods under varying illumination," Journal of Electronic Imaging 14(4), 043014 (1 October 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2142307

Published: 1 October 2005

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