Skin-color based videos categorization

ABSTRACT On dedicated websites, people can upload videos and share it with the rest of the world. Currently these videos are categorized manually by the help of the user community. In this paper, we propose a combination of color spaces with the Bayesian network approach for robust detection of skin color followed by an automated video categorization. Experimental results show that our method can achieve satisfactory performance for categorizing videos based on skin color. Keywords: video categorization, skin detection in videos, color spaces 1. INTRODUCTION Locating and tracking patches of skin-colored pixels through an image is a tool used in many face recognition and gesture tracking systems [13][8].