K. Uetsuki, N. Tsumura, N. Ojima, Y, Miyake
Department of Information and Image Sciences,
Chiba University
1-33, Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522
Japan
*Kao Corporation
2-1-3, Bunka, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-8501,
Japan
Journal of The Society of Photographic Science and Technology of Japan, Vol.61, No.4 pp.255-263 (2001)
Abstract
With the recent progress in various imaging
systems, facial skin color reproduction becomes
increasingly important. Human skin is a very
turbid medium with multilayered structure.
Various pigments such as melanin and hemoglobin
are contained in the skin. Slight changes
in structure and pigment construction produce
rich skin color appearance. In this research,
we reproduce various facial skin color by
changing amount of melanin and hemoglobin
components. The spatial distributions of
melanin and hemoglobin components in the
skin are separated by independent component
analysis of skin color. The separated components
are synthesized to reproduce the various
facial color images by changing amount of
separated pigments. The synthesized images
are evaluated subjectively by comparing with
the original facial image. Correlation maps
are analyzed between appearance of facial
color images and amount of melanin and hemoglobin
components in the facial skin. From these
analysis, we could find that how changes
of melanin or hemoglobin components influence
the appearance of facial color image.
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Conference paper
[PDF] N. Tsumura, K. Uetsuki, N. Ojima, Y, Miyake,
"Correlation map analysis between appearance
of Japanese facial images and amount of melanin
and hemoglobin components in the skin,"
Proc. SPIE 4299 pp.252-260(2001),