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Method for blond-hair-pixel removal in image skin-color detection

US6711286B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 20, 2000
Grant dateMar 23, 2004
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Expiry dateJul 31, 2022

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T2207/30201
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer vision/image processing method of removing blond hair color pixels in digital image skin detection for a variety of imaging related applications, such as redeye defects detection, employs a combination of skin detectors operating in a generalized RGB space in combination with a hue space derived from the original image space to detect skin pixels and blond hair pixels within the skin pixels.

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