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Image skin segmentation based on multi-agent learning Bayesian and neural network


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Zaidan, A. A. and Ahmad, Nurul Nadia and Abdul Karim, Hezerul and Larbani, Moussa and Zaidan, B. B. and Sali, Aduwati (2014) Image skin segmentation based on multi-agent learning Bayesian and neural network. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 32. pp. 136-150. ISSN 0952-1976; ESSN: 1873-6769

Abstract

Skin colour is considered to be a useful and discriminating spatial feature for many skin detection-related applications, but it is not sufficiently robust to address complex image environments because of light-changing conditions, skin-like colours and reflective glass or water. These factors can create major difficulties in face pixel-based skin detectors when the colour feature is used. Thus, this paper proposes a multi-agent learning method that combines the Bayesian method with a grouping histogram (GH) technique and the back-propagation neural network with a segment adjacent-nested (SAN) technique based on the YCbCr and RGB colour spaces, respectively, to improve skin detection performance. The findings from this study have shown that the proposed multi-agent learning for skin detector has produced significant true positive (TP) and true negative (TN) average rates (i.e. 98.44% and 99.86% respectively). In addition, it has achieved a significantly lower average rate for the false negative (FN) and false positive (FP) (i.e. only 1.56% and 0.14% respectively). The experimental results show that multi-agent learning in the skin detector is more efficient than other approaches.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2014.03.002
Publisher: Elsevier
Keywords: Skin detector; Bayesian method; Neural network
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 29 Dec 2015 12:23
Last Modified: 29 Dec 2015 12:23
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37931
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