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

If you are using RGB, you will have problems with lighting(luminance). Best way to deal with skin color detection is YCbCr composition. Y for luminance Cb and Cr for chrominance. Each are expressed as weighed expression of RGB colors. But you use only Cb and Cr to identify skin colors. Y is discarded since you don't want the luminace in your analysis. So use YCbCr instead of RGB. Hope I helped!