Gaussian mixture model for human skin color and its applications in image and video databases

Ming-Hsuan Yang; Narendra Ahuja

doi:10.1117/12.333865

17 December 1998 Gaussian mixture model for human skin color and its applications in image and video databases

Ming-Hsuan Yang, Narendra Ahuja

Proceedings Volume 3656, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VII; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.333865
Event: Electronic Imaging '99, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper is concerned with estimating a probability density function of human skin color, using a finite Gaussian mixture model, whose parameters are estimated through the EM algorithm. Hawkins' statistical test on the normality and homoscedasticity (common covariance matrix) of the estimated Gaussian mixture models is performed and McLachlan's bootstrap method is used to test the number of components in a mixture. Experimental results show that the estimated Gaussian mixture model fits skin images from a large database. Applications of the estimated density function in image and video databases are presented.

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Ming-Hsuan Yang and Narendra Ahuja "Gaussian mixture model for human skin color and its applications in image and video databases", Proc. SPIE 3656, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VII, (17 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.333865

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