Supervisors
This project was done in collaboration with:
- Dr. Alexandra Albu (University of Victoria)
- Neerav Patel (Lucid Vision Labs)
Thanks to
- Dr. Alexandra Albu for taking the time to help me during this project, providing insight, and being flexible to allow remote work
- Neerav Patel for providing feedback, discussion and support throughout the project
- Ilamparithi Thirumarai Chelvan for hosting the course and allowing me to work in a different city while taking it
- Lucid Vision Labs for providing me with a camera, lens, and other equipment I needed
- Family and Friends for supporting me throughout the years as I made my way to this point
- The OpenCV Community for all the image processing functions they have made available
References
In IEEE format, these are some papers I read as I was working on this project:
S. Kolkur, D. Kalbande, P. Shimpi, C. Bapat, and J. Jatakia. (2017). Human Skin Detection Using RGB, HSV, and YCrCb Color models. [online] arxiv.org. Available at: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1708/1708.02694.pdf [Accessed 6 June 2018].
Deepak Gurung, Cansen Jiang, Jeremie Deray, and Désiré Sidibé. (2013). Hand Gesture. Recognition and Tracking. [online] hal-univ-bourgogne.archives-ouvertes.fr. Available at: https://hal-univ-bourgogne.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00903898/document [Accessed 6 June 2018].
Khamar Basha Shaik, P. Ganesan, V. Kalist, B. S. Sathish, J. Merlin Mary Jenitha. (2015). Comparative Study of Skin Color Detection and Segmentation in HSV and YCbCr Colour Space. [online] sciencedirect.com. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915018918
Jian-Hua Zheng, Chong-Yang Hao, Yang-Yu Fan, and Xian-Yong Zang. (2005). Adaptive Skin Detection Under Unconstrained Lighting Conditions Using Bigaussian Model and Illumination Estimation. [online] ias-iss.org. Available at: https://www.iasiss.org/ojs/IAS/article/view/769/672 [Accessed 6 June 2018].
Simone Bianco, Francesca Gasparini, and Raimondo Schettini. Adaptive Skin Classification Using Face and Body Detection. [online] researchgate.net Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281082005_Adaptive_Skin_Classification_Usi ng_Face_and_Body_Detection [Accessed 6 June 2018].
Navneet Dalal and Bill Triggs. (2005). Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection. [online] lear.inrialpes.fr. Available at: http://lear.inrialpes.fr/people/triggs/pubs/Dalal-cvpr05.pdf [Accessed 24 July 2018].
Hong-Min Zhu and Chi-Man Pun. (2014). An Adaptive Superpixel Based Hand Gesture Tracking and Recognition System. [online] ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058504/ [Accesses 24 July 2018].
Apostolos Tsagaris, Sotiris Manitsaris. (2013). Colour Space Comparison for Skin Detection in Finger Gesture Recognition. [online] citeseerx.ist.psu.edu. Available at: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.403.9257&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Countless stackoverflow pages and many opencv documentation pages.