Illuminant color estimation based on pigmentation separation from human skin color

Satomi Tanaka; Akihiro Kakinuma; Naohiro Kamijo; Hiroshi Takahashi; Norimichi Tsumura

doi:10.1117/12.2077854

17 March 2015 Illuminant color estimation based on pigmentation separation from human skin color

Satomi Tanaka, Akihiro Kakinuma, Naohiro Kamijo, Hiroshi Takahashi, Norimichi Tsumura

Proceedings Volume 9394, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XX; 93941J (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077854
Event: SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Human has the visual system called “color constancy” that maintains the perceptive colors of same object across various light sources. The effective method of color constancy algorithm was proposed to use the human facial color in a digital color image, however, this method has wrong estimation results by the difference of individual facial colors. In this paper, we present the novel color constancy algorithm based on skin color analysis. The skin color analysis is the method to separate the skin color into the components of melanin, hemoglobin and shading. We use the stationary property of Japanese facial color, and this property is calculated from the components of melanin and hemoglobin. As a result, we achieve to propose the method to use subject’s facial color in image and not depend on the individual difference among Japanese facial color.

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Satomi Tanaka, Akihiro Kakinuma, Naohiro Kamijo, Hiroshi Takahashi, and Norimichi Tsumura "Illuminant color estimation based on pigmentation separation from human skin color", Proc. SPIE 9394, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XX, 93941J (17 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077854

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Xenon

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