MATLAB: How to find pixel value of different face skin colors

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Hi, i am quite new to image processing. I would like to know how can i detect area of different skin colours. For example, causcassion, asian, etc

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First get a mask of the face - a binary image that's true where there is face and false elsewhere. Then...

% Extract the individual red, green, and blue color channels using imsplit() (introduced in R2018b).
[redChannel, greenChannel, blueChannel] = imsplit(rgbImage);
meanR = redChannel(faceMask)
meanG = greenChannel(faceMask)
meanB = blueChannel(faceMask)

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MATLAB: Crop dark area and display the face only

Convert to grayscale and then threshold and find the bounding box

clc;    % Clear the command window.
close all;  % Close all figures (except those of imtool.)
imtool close all;  % Close all imtool figures.
clear;  % Erase all existing variables. Or clearvars if you want.
workspace;  % Make sure the workspace panel is showing.
format long g;
format compact;
fontSize = 20;
% Read in the color image.
folder = pwd;
baseFileName = 'm2.bmp';
% Get the full filename, with path prepended.
fullFileName = fullfile(folder, baseFileName);
if ~exist(fullFileName, 'file')
  % Didn't find it there.  Check the search path for it.
  fullFileName = baseFileName; % No path this time.
  if ~exist(fullFileName, 'file')
    % Still didn't find it.  Alert user.
    errorMessage = sprintf('Error: %s does not exist.', fullFileName);
    uiwait(warndlg(errorMessage));
    return;
  end
end
rgbImage = imread(fullFileName);
% Get the dimensions of the image.  numberOfColorBands should be = 3.
[rows, columns, numberOfColorBands] = size(rgbImage);
% Display the original color image.
subplot(2, 3, 1);
imshow(rgbImage, []);
axis on;
title('Original Color Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
drawnow;
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]);
% Histogram the red channel, but there is a huge spike at 255 so let's not count those.
subplot(2, 3, 2);
grayImage = rgb2gray(rgbImage);
imshow(grayImage, []);
title('Gray Scale version', 'FontSize', fontSize);
subplot(2, 3, 3);
histogram(grayImage(grayImage<255))
grid on;
title('Histogram of Gray Scale Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
someThresholdValue = 150;
binaryImage = grayImage > someThresholdValue;
% Take largest blob
binaryImage = bwareafilt(binaryImage, 1);
subplot(2, 3, 4);
imshow(binaryImage);
grid on;
title('Binary Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Label the binary image.
labeledImage = bwlabel(binaryImage);
props = regionprops(labeledImage, 'BoundingBox');
bbox = props.BoundingBox
croppedImageRGB = imcrop(rgbImage, bbox);
subplot(2, 3, 5);
imshow(croppedImageRGB);
grid on;
title('Cropped RGB Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Gray scale version of cropped image
croppedImageGray = imcrop(grayImage, bbox);
subplot(2, 3, 6);
imshow(croppedImageGray);
grid on;
title('Cropped Gray Scale Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);

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