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Detection and classification of skin regions plays important roles in many image processing and vision applications. In this paper, we present a statistical approach for fast skin detection in MPEG-compressed videos. Firstly, conditional probabilities of skin and non-skin pixels are extracted from manual marked training images. Then, candidate skin pixels are identified using the Bayesian maximum a posteriori decision rule. An optimal threshold is then obtained by analyzing of probability error on the basis of the likelihood ratio histogram of skin and non-skin pixels. Experiments from sequences with varying illuminations have demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach.
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Ren, J., Jiang, J. (2007). Statistical Classification of Skin Color Pixels from MPEG Videos. In: Blanc-Talon, J., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. (eds) Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems. ACIVS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4678. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74607-2_36
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