The authors present a method of modeling skin color using three Gaussian distributions on (Y, u',v') chromaticity coordinates and transforming skin color pixels into preferred color zone. Elaborate modeling enables us to adaptively change degree of movement to reduce contour artifacts arising from transformation and to obtain more natural feeling in the transformed skin color domain. It is also shown that our method can achieve relatively fast operation without introducing an extra frame memory.
Sung-Jin Kang, Oh-Yeol Kwon, Sung-Il Chien, "Preferred Skin Color Reproduction Based on Y-Dependent Gaussian Modeling of Skin Color" in Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 2011, pp 40504-1 - 40504-7, https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2011.55.4.040504