Variation in the superficial blood supply undoubtedly plays a more important r6le in the production of changes in the color of the skin than does an increase or decrease in the pigment. This accounts for the difference in subjects who are fairly well matched otherwise with regard to content of cutaneous pigment. In general, the pigment, in proportion to its amount, prevents the superficial bloo...

The generation of structural color from wrinkled polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surfaces, fabricated by plasma exposure, subjected to uni- and multi-axial, sequential strain fields is examined. approach based on the well-known, mechanically-induced, buckling instability a supported bilayer, whereby top glassy “skin” formed oxidation. Surface periodicities 200 nm ≲ d 3 μm, encompassing visible spec...

An approach for segmenting and tracking a face in a sequence of color images is presented. It enables reliable segmentation of facial region despite variation of skin-color perceived by a camera. A second order Markov model is utilized to forecast the skin distribution of facial regions in the next frame. The histograms that are constructed from the predicted distribution are backprojected to g...

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) found to be statistically significant when associated with human diseases, and other phenotypes are most often located in non-coding regions of the genome. One example is rs10765819 located in the first intron of the BNC2 gene previously associated with (saturation of) human skin color. Here, we demonstrate that a nearby intergenic SNP (rs12350739) in high...

Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1105 I. Skin Color and African Americans ....................................................................... 1109 II. Skin Color in Asian and Asian-American Communities ................................... 1113 A. Skin Color and Class .................................

In this paper, we propose a new method, called an adaptive skin color xlter, for detecting skin color regions in a color image. The use of skin color provides an e$cient way to "nd candidate regions for faces or hands in color images. However, it is not easy to "nd skin color regions because the color of skin regions varies from image to image due to a variety of reasons. Since most of the prev...

The transition metal nitrides like titanium nitride exhibit very interesting color variation properties depending on the different plasma deposition conditions using cylindrical magnetron sputtering method. It is found in this deposition study that nitrogen partial pressure in the reactive gas discharge environment plays a significant role on the color variation of the film coatings on bell-met...

Skin color segmentationis used to determine whether the color pixel is a skin color or non skin color. Understanding the skin color segmentation which supports to design YCbCr and CIELab algorithm for skin color segmentation which use in various applications such as face detection, human computer interaction, medical x-rays scan, agriculture. In this paper we discuss on face detection algorithm...

A robust skin detector is the primary need of many fields of computer vision, including face detection, gesture recognition, and pornography filtering. Less than 10 years ago, the first paper on automatic pornography filtering was published. Since then, different researchers claim different color spaces to be the best choice for skin detection in pornography filtering. Unfortunately, no com...

©2002, IS&T—The Society for Imaging Science and Technology outer thin layer, epidermis, and an inner, relatively thick layer, dermis. For normal human skin, the absorption of the epidermis is dominated by a black pigment called melanin, though there are five different pigments in the skin.6 The spectral characteristics of different races or different individuals are due only to variation in the...