Conference,
Combining Color Spaces for Human Skin Detection in Color Images using Skin Cluster Classifier
(2013)
Abstract
Skin detection remains a challenging task over
several decades in spite of many techniques evolved. It is the
elementary step of most of the computer vision applications
like face recognition, human computer interaction, etc. It
depends on the suitability of color space chosen, skin modeling
and classification of skin and non-skin pixels under varying
illumination conditions. This paper presents a symbolic
interpretation on the performance of the color spaces using
piecewise linear decision boundary classifier in color images
to find the winning color space (s). The whole task is divided
into three processes: analysis of color spaces individually;
analysis of the combination of two color spaces; and finally
making a comparative analysis among the results obtained by
the above two processes. For performing the fair evaluation,
the whole experiment is tested over commonly used databases.
Based on the success rate, false positive and false negative of
each color spaces, the winner(s) has been chosen among single
and the combination of color spaces.
