Is there a way to overcome For loops for fast processing?

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I have written a following MATLAB code to detect skin color pixels from the RGB image. The output is as expected but being pixel by pixel algorithm, my program is taking too long, expecially for high quality images. Is there a way to take out the for loops for fast processing? Thank you.
[s1,s2,s3] = size(I);
skin_img1 = zeros(s1,s2,s3);
maxR = max(max(R));
minR = min(min(R));
maxG = max(max(G))
minG = min(min(G));
maxB = max(max(B));
minB = min(min(B));
for i = 1:s1
for j = 1:s2
if R(i,j)>90/255
if ( G(i,j)>40/255 && B(i,j)>20/255 && abs(R(i,j)-G(i,j))>15/255 && R(i,j)> G(i,j) && R(i,j) > B(i,j)...
&& (max([R(i,j),G(i,j),B(i,j)])- min([R(i,j),G(i,j),B(i,j)]) >15/255));
% (maxR - minR)>15/255 && (maxG - minG)>15/255 && (maxB - minB)>15/255 )
skin_img1(i,j,:) = I (i,j,:);
end
% else
% if( R(i,j)> G(i,j) && R(i,j) > B(i,j) && R(i,j) - G(i,j)> 5/255 && (abs(G(i,j)-B(i,j))>5/255))
% Skin_Image(i,j,:) = I (i,j,:);
% end
end
end
end

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Muhammad Farhan  Mughal
Muhammad Farhan Mughal on 10 Sep 2019
Following MATLAB code significantly reduced the computatonal cost of the questioned code
R = I(:,:,1);
G = I(:,:,2);
B = I(:,:,3);
R = double(R);
G = double(G);
B = double(B);
R = R/255;
G = G/255;
B = B/255;
[s1,s2,s3] = size(I);
skin_img1 = zeros(s1,s2,s3);
index1 = zeros(size(R));
R1 = R(:) ; G1 = R(:); B1 = B(:);
mat_I = [R1,G1,B1]';
index = R >90/255 & G > 40/255 & B>20/255 & abs(R-G)>15/255 & R> G & R > B &...
reshape((max(mat_I)- min(mat_I)) >15/255, [s1,s2]);
index = uint8(index);
skin_img = repmat(index,[1,1,3]).*I;
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Muhammad Farhan  Mughal
Muhammad Farhan Mughal on 10 Sep 2019
Yes, you can I also wrote that code for research purposes.

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darova
darova on 9 Sep 2019
See attached script
clc, clear
A = imread('masson.jpg');
subplot(1,2,1)
imshow(A)
RGB = [40 120 40]; % color you want
e = 40; % color shift / deviation
B = pix_in(A,RGB,e);
B = B + 255.*uint8(~B); % choosing white background
subplot(1,2,2)
imshow(B)
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