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Skin detection has been employed in various applications including face and hand tracking, and retrieving people in video databases. However most of the currently available algorithms are either based on static features of the skin color, or require a significant amount of computation. Moreover, skin detection algorithms are not robust enough to deal with real-world conditions, such as background noise, change of intensity and lighting effects. This situation can be improved by using dynamic features of the skin color in a sequence of images. This article proposes a skin detection algorithm based on in-motion pixels of the image. The membership measurement function for recognizing skin/non skin is based on the Hue histogram of skin pixels that adapts itself to the user’s skin color, in each frame. This algorithm has demonstrated significant improvement in comparison to the static skin detection algorithms.
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Dadgostar, F., Sarrafzadeh, A. (2005). A Fast Real-Time Skin Detector for Video Sequences. In: Kamel, M., Campilho, A. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3656. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11559573_98
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