4.3 Experimental Analysis
4.3.2 Experimental validation
At rst, we examine the eet of
φ max
on detetion results. For this, detetion errors arealulated by varying
φ max
, and the results are given in Table 4.1. It is observed that whenφ max = 0 ◦
, average false negative errorδ f n,avg
is maximum. Forφ max = 0 ◦
, the parameterξ = 1 8
. This implies that some of the lusters orresponding to the true skin pixels inG I
areinluded inLBDM,and/orexluded fromMSDM.In eitherof theseonditions, lusterswhose
entroids are very lose to that of FSDM are only seleted as skin lusters. An inrease in
φ max
value makes more skin-like lusters to be exluded from the bakground model, and/orinluded inMSDM.Thus, falsenegativeerrorredues withaninrease in
φ max
value. However,this inreases thehane offalseaeptaneerror. Someofthe lustersofskin-likebakground
Table 4.3: Comparative analysisof dierent methods
Method
δ f p,avg
(%)δ f n,avg
(%)δ t,avg
(%) Avg. A.Bayes lassier[13℄ 19.69 34.22 53.91 0.7842
SDDMA[128℄ 4.71 58.08 62.80 0.8710
ASSC [21℄ 8.57 25.85 34.42 0.8919
DSPF [9℄ 21.67 22.37 44.04 0.7832
SASC [22℄ 11.70 45.15 56.84 0.8470
FSPM [23℄ 16.85 13.17 30.02 0.8373
FSDM + FBDM 5.33 15.14 20.47 0.9345
FSDM + MSDM + FBDM 5.78 8.19 13.97 0.9404
δ f p =
falsepositiveerror rate;δ f n =
false negativeerror rate;δ t =
total detetion error rate
= δ f p + δ f n
;A. = Auraypixelsan beinluded inMSDM and/orexludedfromLBDM ifthe
φ max
isinreased further.For example, the average false positive error
δ f p,avg
inreases signiantly for an inrease inφ max
from20 ◦
to40 ◦
. On the other hand, the average false negative errorδ f n,avg
dereasessigniantlyfor aninrease in
φ max
from0 ◦
to20 ◦
. It isalsoobserved that forφ max ≥ 20 ◦
, theaverage total detetion error
δ t,avg
for all the videos beomes the lowest. Hene,φ max
value isxed at
20 ◦
for the remaininganalysis.A omparative analysis is also performed between the original Bhattaharyya distane
(OBD) and the proposed Modied Bhattaharyya distane (MBD). Detetion errors are al-
ulated by both OBD and MBD. As mentioned in Eq. 4.8, the maximum value of MBD is
xed by OBD. The omparison between the OBD and the MBD inalulating SPM is Shown
in Table 4.2. In ontrast to OBD, detetion errors redue due the appliation of MBD. This
validates the eay of the proposed MBD inskin detetion.
Finally,theproposedmethodisomparedwiththestate-of-the-artmethods,suhasBayes
lassier[13℄,Fast propagation-basedskinsegmentation(FPSS)[14℄,Adaptiveseed-basedskin
lassiation (ASSC) [21℄, Skin detetion by dual maximization of detetors agreement (SD-
DMA) [128℄, Disriminative Skin-Presene Feature (DSPF) [9℄, Staked Autoenoders-based
skin lassiation(SASC) [22℄, and Fusion-based SkinProbabilityMap (FSPM) [23℄. The de-
tetionresultsobatinedbydierentmethodsaregiveninTable4.3. TheBayeslassiermethod
video #
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
δ t
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
140%
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) SASC (2017) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
(a)
video #
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Accuracy
0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2
1.4 Jones & Rehg (2002)
ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) SASC (2017) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
(b)
Figure 4.11: Comparative barplots for dierentvideos: (a)
δ t
for dierent videos,and (b)Aurayfor dierent videos.
δ fn (%)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
δ fp (%)
0 20 40 60 80
100 Video # 1
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
(a)
δ fn (%)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
δ fp (%)
0 10 20 30 40
50 Video # 2
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
(b)
δ fn (%)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
δ fp (%)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
70 Video # 3
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
()
δ fn (%)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
δ fp (%)
0 20 40 60 80
100 Video # 4
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
(d)
δ fn (%)
0 20 40 60 80 100
δ fp (%)
0 20 40 60 80
100 Video # 5
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
(e)
δ fn (%)
0 5 10 15
δ fp (%)
20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
100 Video # 6
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
(f)
Figure 4.12: ROC plots for dierent videos(16).
proposedbyJones andRehg[13℄isonsideredasabenhmark. Fortraining,themethodneeds
a set of skin and non-skin pixel samples, whih are obtained globally. However, the auray
of this method is totally dependent on the training sample set. The Jones & Rehg's method
δ fn (%)
5 10 15 20 25 30
δ fp (%)
0 10 20 30 40
50 Video # 7
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
(a)
δ fn (%)
0 5 10 15 20
δ fp (%)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
80 Video # 8
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
(b)
δ fn (%)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
δ fp (%)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
70 Video # 9
Jones & Rehg (2002) ASSC (2013) DSPF (2014) FSPM (2017) FSDM + FBDM FSDM + MSDM + FBDM
()
Figure 4.13: ROC plots for dierent videos(79).
produes more false negatives as ompared to our proposed method. In order to ompare the
SDDMA methodwith the proposed method, itis trained with
N T F
number of labelled initialframes of9videos (Intotal,
9 × N T F
frames). However, SDDMAfailssigniantlyindetetingtrue skin regions. It produes highest false negatives among allthe benhmark methods. The
DSPF method an give omparatively better results than the standard SPM, and it gives a
disriminative spae-based skin map. The DSPF method mostly relies on SPM derived from
global training samples, and thus it is not adaptive to loal environmental onditions of an
image.
As human faialolouralmostresembles the overallskin olourof aperson, faedetetion-
basedskinmodeladaptationtehniqueangivesuperiorskindetetionperformane. TheASSC
method uses adaptive seeds for skin region growing. The adaptive seeds are derived from a
V# 1, F# 230 V# 2, F# 230 V# 3, F# 185
V# 4, F# 146
V# 5, F# 181 V# 6, F# 65
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h)
V# 7, F# 199
V# 8, F# 219
V# 9, F#242
Figure 4.14: Comparative detetion results for minimum
δ t,avg
: (a) Original frames, (b) Jones andRehg [13℄,()ASSC[21℄,(d)DSPF[9℄,(e) SASC[22℄,(f)FSPM[23℄,(g)Proposedmethod,and(h)
Groundtruth. Here, white olour represents true positive, blak olour represents true negative, red
olour representsfalse positive,andgreen olour representsfalse negative.
loal skin model (derived from faial skin pixels). The ASSC method relies on a standard
SPM for region growing, and hene, it is unable to detet many true skin pixels. So, this
method produes higher false negative errors than the proposed method. The FSPM-based
method gives better detetion auray by utilizing image pixel distribution information to
derive a loalSPM (LSPM). The LSPM is later fused with the original or global SPM to get
the FSPM.The FSPM isabletodetetmore trueskin pixelsasomparedtoother benhmark
methods. In our method, the ombination of FSDM and FBDM gives a stati skin detetion
modelforvideos. TheinorporationofMSDMmakestheskindetetionmodeladaptivetoloal
illuminationhanges, and a dynami skin detetion model for videos is obtained. The stati
(a)
OQ R ST U S VU S WU SXU S YU S ZUV# 7,
F# 199
V# 8, F# 219
V# 9, F#242 V# 1, F# 230 V# 2, F# 230 V# 3, F# 185
V# 4, F# 146
V# 5, F# 181
V# 6, F# 65
Figure 4.15: Comparative detetion results for maximum auray: (a) Original frames, (b) Jones
andRehg[13℄,()ASSC[21℄,(d)DSPF[9℄,(e)SASC[22℄,(f)FSPMetal.[23℄,(g)Proposedmethod,
and(h)Groundtruth. Here,whiteolourrepresentstruepositive,blakolourrepresentstruenegative,
red olour represents falsepositive,and greenolour representsfalse negative.
model isprone toprodue more false rejetions as ompared to itsdynami ounterpart. The
dynamiadaptation ofthe proposed MSDM forloalilluminationhangesmakesthe proposed
system more robust to unonstrained illumination and bakground onditions. In Fig. 4.12
4.13, omparative ROC plots are shown for dierent videos. In Fig. 4.144.15, the detetion
results are shown for allthe test videos. It is evident from allthe experiential results that the
proposedmethodan detetskinregionsinavideomoreaurately thantheexisting standard
methodseven inthe presene of loalolour deformations.