Fuzzy System Learned Through Fuzzy Clustering and Support Vector Machine for Human Skin Color Segmentation

  • Authors:
  • Chia-Feng Juang;Shih-Hsuan Chiu;Shen-Jie Shiu

  • Affiliations:
  • Nat. Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper proposes a Fuzzy System learned through Fuzzy Clustering and Support Vector Machine (FS-FCSVM). The FS-FCSVM is a fuzzy system constructed by fuzzy if-then rules with fuzzy singletons in the consequence. The structure of FS-FCSVM is constructed by fuzzy clustering on the input data, which helps to reduce the number of rules. Parameters in FS-FCSVM are learned through a support vector machine (SVM) for the purpose of achieving higher generalization ability. In contrast to nonlinear kernel-based SVM or some other fuzzy systems with a support vector learning mechanism, both the number of parameters/rules in FS-FCSVM and the computation time are much smaller. FS-FCSVM is applied to skin color segmentation. For color information representation, different types of features based on scaled hue and saturation color space are used. Comparisons with a fuzzy neural network, the Gaussian kernel SVM, and mixture of Gaussian classifiers are performed to show the advantage of FS-FCSVM.