Abstract:Skin colour segmentation is rapidly growing area of research in computer science for identification and authentication of persons. In this paper, a novel generic bivariate Pearsonian mixture model for skin colour segmentation is proposed. It is observed that the hue and saturation of the colour image better characterise the features of the individual human races. In general, the human race can be characterised in to three categories namely Asian, African and European. The feature of the skin colour of these ra… Show more
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