function [skin1, skin2, optimalThreshold] = SegmentSkin(filename, bmean, rmean, brcov) % Assume the skinmodel.m is run % Produce two images, skinlikelihood greyscale image, skin1 % and skin segment binary image, skin2 im = imread(filename); imycbcr = rgb2ycbcr(im); dim = size(im); skin1 = zeros(dim(1), dim(2)); for i = 1:dim(1) for j = 1:dim(2) cb = double(imycbcr(i,j,2)); cr = double(imycbcr(i,j,3)); x = [(cb-bmean); (cr-rmean)]; skin1(i,j) = exp(-0.5* x'*inv(brcov)* x); end end lpf= 1/9*ones(3); skin1 = filter2(lpf,skin1); skin1 = skin1./max(max(skin1)); % Adaptive Thresholding previousSkin2 = zeros(i,j); changelist = []; for threshold = 0.55:-0.1:0.05 skin2 = zeros(i,j); skin2(find(skin1>threshold)) = 1; change = sum(sum(skin2 - previousSkin2)); changelist = [changelist change]; previousSkin2 = skin2; end % Finding the optimal threshold [C, I] = min(changelist); optimalThreshold = (7-I)*0.1 skin2 = zeros(i,j); skin2(find(skin1>optimalThreshold)) = 1; figure(1) imshow(skin1, [0 1]); figure(2) imshow(skin2, [0 1]);