A RESEARCH STUDY ON RECENT SKIN COLOR BASED STATISTICAL SEGMENTATION MODELING TECHNIQUES

The fundamental thought behind pixel based skin color segmentation is to detect and extract the pigment color of human’s skin from the input image since it may contain other like skin color. The skin color is a perfect sign to the presence of human skin in a specific scene and a helpful indicator to minimize the search area to include the hand and face only. Skin color modeling techniques have been widely utilized for this purpose, the selection of color modeling techniques depends on the nature of the application with the suitable color model. In this paper we will discuss some recent skin color based segmentation modeling techniques applied to located and extract the hand gesture in order to prepare the segmented hand for the later gesture recognition stages.