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  • Image Analysis
  • Computational Science

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  • Skin color is a critical indicator for diagnosing and predicting skin conditions like irritation and dermatitis.
  • Existing methods for skin color evaluation have limitations in consistency and accuracy.
  • Skin color is influenced by various intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel, objective method for evaluating Korean skin color.
  • To overcome the limitations of current subjective visual scoring methods.
  • To demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed skin color classification technique.

Main Methods:

  • Quantified Korean skin color from digital images using RGB, HSV, CIELab, and YCbCr color spaces.
  • Classified skin color through clustering algorithms.
  • Compared classification performance against existing methods using multinomial logistic regression, SVM, KNN, and random forest.

Main Results:

  • Verified the skin color classification performance based on quantified features and chosen classifiers.
  • Demonstrated the superiority of the proposed method by comparing its performance with existing techniques.
  • Confirmed the usefulness of the novel objective skin color classification approach.

Conclusions:

  • Developed an objective method to classify Korean skin color values from digital images using clustering.
  • Presented an optimized classification strategy for Korean skin tones.
  • The proposed method provides a foundation for objective skin color quantification and standardization in research.