Skin Color Detection

Question

I am using the following algorithm to detect skin color, but its not working real well in different lighting conditions. Can anybody offer any advice how to improve it or su

Answer 1

There are a lot of methods for skin colour modelling, each has its pros and cons.

Pick one based on your purposes. Look at these surveys:

V. Vezhnevets, V. Sazonov, A. Andreeva. A survey on pixel-based skin color detection techniques. Proc. Graphicon, 2003

P. Kakumanu, S. Makrogiannis, N. Bourbakis. A survey of skin-color modeling and detection methods. Pattern recognition, 2007