Intelligent Mobile App for Identifying Skin Pigments

摘要

The foundation is a cosmetic makeup applied to the face before other makeup is applied. In this research effort, a novel algorithm used to assist the selection of the optimal cosmetic foundation makeup color is presented. The algorithm is implemented as a mobile application on iPhone 's iOS platform. The selection process is done by: (1) Intelligent segmenting of a preselected facial image into different skin regions, (2) Selecting (done by user) one of the facial region (or regions), (3) Merging regions based on their size and adjacency, if applicable, (4) Clustering the regions into 16 different colors using the k-means algorithm, (5) Selecting and averaging the top 4 clusters, (6) Mapping the average on a standard industry color table of cosmetic foundations, (7) Applying the identified color to the facial image. Results are shown for numerous samples from standard videos and images taken from the cameras used on the iPad.