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Skin detection is an essential preliminary step in many applications. Most skin detectors are color based. The distributions of skin and non-skin colors overlap, and so color cannot fully discriminate between skin and non-skin pixels. Skin detection is made more difficult by the need to be able to robustly detect skin in a wide range of illumination settings. Several color correction methods have...