Is there a way to measure skin tone of an object from an iphone app

Question

Im trying to find a way to programme/buy an app to use the iphone to detect someones skin tone against an objective scale using RGB froma phot they take of themselves. Anyone got any pointers?

Answer 1

I think the objections to this are correct - its going to be pretty hard work to calibrate it. However, any solution is going to rely on being able to get the colour of a specific pixel in an image (in this case a UIImageView...)

- (UIColor*) getPixelColorAtLocation:(CGPoint)point {

 UIColor* color = nil; CGImageRef inImage = self.image.CGImage; // Create off screen bitmap context to draw the image into. Format ARGB is 4 bytes for each pixel: Alpa, Red, Green, Blue CGContextRef cgctx = [self createARGBBitmapContextFromImage:inImage]; if (cgctx == NULL) { return nil; /* error */ } size_t w = CGImageGetWidth(inImage); size_t h = CGImageGetHeight(inImage); CGRect rect = {{0,0},{w,h}}; // Draw the image to the bitmap context. Once we draw, the memory // allocated for the context for rendering will then contain the // raw image data in the specified color space. CGContextDrawImage(cgctx, rect, inImage); // Now we can get a pointer to the image data associated with the bitmap // context. unsigned char* data = CGBitmapContextGetData (cgctx); if (data != NULL) { //offset locates the pixel in the data from x,y. //4 for 4 bytes of data per pixel, w is width of one row of data. int offset = 4*((w*round(point.y))+round(point.x)); int alpha = data[offset]; int red = data[offset+1]; int green = data[offset+2]; int blue = data[offset+3]; NSLog(@"offset: %i colors: RGB A %i %i %i %i",offset,red,green,blue,alpha); color = [UIColor colorWithRed:(red/255.0f) green:(green/255.0f) blue:(blue/255.0f) alpha:(alpha/255.0f)]; } // When finished, release the context CGContextRelease(cgctx); // Free image data memory for the context if (data) { free(data); } return color; } 

UIColor* color = nil; CGImageRef inImage = self.image.CGImage; // Create off screen bitmap context to draw the image into. Format ARGB is 4 bytes for each pixel: Alpa, Red, Green, Blue CGContextRef cgctx = [self createARGBBitmapContextFromImage:inImage]; if (cgctx == NULL) { return nil; /* error */ } size_t w = CGImageGetWidth(inImage); size_t h = CGImageGetHeight(inImage); CGRect rect = {{0,0},{w,h}}; // Draw the image to the bitmap context. Once we draw, the memory // allocated for the context for rendering will then contain the // raw image data in the specified color space. CGContextDrawImage(cgctx, rect, inImage); // Now we can get a pointer to the image data associated with the bitmap // context. unsigned char* data = CGBitmapContextGetData (cgctx); if (data != NULL) { //offset locates the pixel in the data from x,y. //4 for 4 bytes of data per pixel, w is width of one row of data. int offset = 4*((w*round(point.y))+round(point.x)); int alpha = data[offset]; int red = data[offset+1]; int green = data[offset+2]; int blue = data[offset+3]; NSLog(@"offset: %i colors: RGB A %i %i %i %i",offset,red,green,blue,alpha); color = [UIColor colorWithRed:(red/255.0f) green:(green/255.0f) blue:(blue/255.0f) alpha:(alpha/255.0f)]; } // When finished, release the context CGContextRelease(cgctx); // Free image data memory for the context if (data) { free(data); } return color; }

This code is from a colourPicker class which carries the following (c)

// Created by markj on 3/6/09. // Copyright 2009 Mark Johnson. All rights reserved.

The full article is here http://www.markj.net/iphone-uiimage-pixel-color/