Human Skin Region Identification Using Fusion Technique

Abstract

Face recognition is very important in many research areas from machine vision to complex security systems and the important cue to detect the human face is skin color. The proposed paper focuses on isolating the regions of an image corresponding to human skin region through the use of fusion technique. Fusion is performed on the skin region detected from RGB, YCbCr and CIEL*a*b color spaces of the given input image. Then the fused image is filtered by the median filter, in order to avoid the noise. This technique will be able to clearly identify skin region of the image. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.