should be region-based rather than pixel-based. Also,
by adding more constraints on the CRF similar to
(Shotton et al., 2006) , the detection rate can be im-
proved. Moreover, any better skin color classification
method can be used as our basic skin color classifi-
cation module and can be easily combined with our
region-based skin color detection framework defined
in section 3 to improve the results.
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