Adaptive Skin Classification Using Face and Body Detection

作者：Bianco Simone^*; Gasparini Francesca; Schettini Raimondo

来源：IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2015, 24(12): 4756-4765.

DOI：10.1109/TIP.2015.2467209

• Skin classification
• face detection
• body detection

In this paper, we propose a skin classification method exploiting faces and bodies automatically detected in the image, to adaptively initialize individual ad hoc skin classifiers. Each classifier is initialized by a face and body couple or by a single face, if no reliable body is detected. Thus, the proposed method builds an ad hoc skin classifier for each person in the image, resulting in a classifier less dependent from changes in skin color due to tan levels, races, genders, and illumination conditions. The experimental results on a heterogeneous data set of labeled images show that our proposal outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, and that this improvement is statistically significant.

• 出版日期2015-12