README.md

Skin Color Detection

System Requirement

• Visual Studio Community 2013
• OpenCV 2.4.10

Introduction

This repository is used for detection skin color in the image. Different methods are incorporated into this repository to detect skin in different circumstance. Strategy pattern are used in this repository, so different method can be invoked simply by initial corresponding class name.

Demo

Mat SrcImg = imread("G:/data/20150528173901.jpg");
resize(SrcImg, SrcImg, Size(384, 512));
Mat DstImg;

// Select different methods
//Strategy *Ptr2SkinDetector = new QuadPoly(SrcImg);
//Strategy *Ptr2SkinDetector = new RGBColorSpace(SrcImg);
//Strategy *Ptr2SkinDetector = new YCbCrColorSpace(SrcImg);
//Strategy *Ptr2SkinDetector = new SkinDetector_OPENCV(SrcImg);
Strategy *Ptr2SkinDetector = new EllipseModel(SrcImg);
Ptr2SkinDetector->detectSkin();
Ptr2SkinDetector->getResult(DstImg);
//imwrite("G:/data/SkinColor.jpg", DstImg);
namedWindow("Src");
namedWindow("Dst");
imshow("Src", SrcImg);
imshow("Dst", DstImg);
cvWaitKey(0);
return 0;

Interfaces

Base class - Strategy

The base class is an abstract class that converts the image to proper formation, so that the skin detection algorithm can process the images well.

class Strategy
{
public:
    Strategy(Mat FaceImg);
    virtual ~Strategy();
    virtual void detectSkin() = 0;
    void getResult(Mat &Result);

protected:
    Mat SrcImage, DstImage;
    void normalizeImage(Mat &Src);
};

• Strategy(Mat FaceImg) - construct the class with a image FaceImg
• ~Strategy() - destructor
• detectSkin() - pure virtual function, used for detect skin color in derived class
• getResult(Mat &Result) - get the result image
• normalizeImage(Mat &Src) - normalize the image in the V-channel

Skin Color Detector in OpenCV

class SkinDetector_OPENCV :
    public Strategy
{
public:
    SkinDetector_OPENCV(Mat InputImg);
    virtual ~SkinDetector_OPENCV();
    virtual void detectSkin();
};

Quad Poly

class QuadPoly :
    public Strategy
{
public:
    QuadPoly(Mat InputImage);
    virtual ~QuadPoly();
    virtual void detectSkin();

private:
    void getNormalized(Mat &Normalized, Mat &Sum);
    void getMask(const Mat &Normalized);
};

RGB Color Space

class RGBColorSpace :
    public Strategy
{
public:
    RGBColorSpace(Mat Input);
    virtual ~RGBColorSpace();
    virtual void detectSkin();
};

YCbCr Color Space

class YCbCrColorSpace :
    public Strategy
{
public:
    YCbCrColorSpace(Mat Input);
    virtual ~YCbCrColorSpace();
    virtual void detectSkin();
};

Ellipse model

class EllipseModel :
    public Strategy
{
public:
    EllipseModel(Mat inputImg);
    virtual ~EllipseModel();
    virtual void detectSkin();

private:
    Mat skinCrCbHist;
    void setSkinCrCbHist();
};