TY - JOUR
T1 - Neural network approach for image chromatic adaptation for skin color detection
AU - Bourbakis, N.
AU - Kakumanu, P.
AU - Makrogiannis, S.
AU - Bryll, R.
AU - Panchanathan, Sethuraman
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by awards from NSF-ASU, AIIS Inc. and WSU/DAGSI.
PY - 2007/2
Y1 - 2007/2
N2 - The goal of image chromatic, adaptation is to remove the effect of illumination and to obtain color data that reflects precisely the physical contents of the scene. We present in this paper an approach to image chromatic adaptation using Neural Networks (NN) with application for detecting - adapting human skin color. The NN is trained on randomly chosen color images containing human subject under various illuminating conditions, thereby enabling the model to dynamically adapt to the changing illumination conditions. The proposed network predicts directly the illuminant estimate in the image so as to adapt to human skin color. The comparison of our method with Gray World, White Patch and NN on White Patch methods for skin color stabilization is presented. The skin regions in the NN stabilized images are successfully detected using a computationally inexpensive thresholding operation. We also present results on detecting skin regions on a data set of test images. The results are promising and suggest a new approach for adapting human skin color using neural networks.
AB - The goal of image chromatic, adaptation is to remove the effect of illumination and to obtain color data that reflects precisely the physical contents of the scene. We present in this paper an approach to image chromatic adaptation using Neural Networks (NN) with application for detecting - adapting human skin color. The NN is trained on randomly chosen color images containing human subject under various illuminating conditions, thereby enabling the model to dynamically adapt to the changing illumination conditions. The proposed network predicts directly the illuminant estimate in the image so as to adapt to human skin color. The comparison of our method with Gray World, White Patch and NN on White Patch methods for skin color stabilization is presented. The skin regions in the NN stabilized images are successfully detected using a computationally inexpensive thresholding operation. We also present results on detecting skin regions on a data set of test images. The results are promising and suggest a new approach for adapting human skin color using neural networks.
KW - Image chromatic adaptation
KW - Neural color constancy and skin color detection
KW - Neural networks
KW - Skin color adaptation
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U2 - 10.1142/S0129065707000920
DO - 10.1142/S0129065707000920
M3 - Article
C2 - 17393559
AN - SCOPUS:34047137280
SN - 0129-0657
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - International Journal of Neural Systems
JF - International Journal of Neural Systems
IS - 1
ER -