title: Robust Hand Detection via Computer Vision
body: <p>I am currently working on a system for robust hand detection.</p>
  
  <p>The first step is to take a photo of the hand (in HSV color space) with the hand placed in a small rectangle to determine the skin color. I then apply a thresholding filter to set all non-skin pixels to black and all skin pixels white. </p>
  
  <p>So far it works quite well, but I wanted to ask if there is a better way to solve this? For example, I found a few papers mentioning concrete color spaces for caucasian people, but none with a comparison for asian/african/caucasian color-tones.</p>
  
  <p>By the way, I'm working with OpenCV via Python bindings.</p>