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An individual's privacy is a significant concern in surveillance videos. Existing research work into the location of individuals on the basis of detecting their skin is focused either on different techniques for detecting human skin on protecting individuals from the consequences of applying such techniques. This paper considers both lines of research and proposes a hybrid scheme for human skin detection and subsequent privacy protection by utilizing color information in dynamically varying illumination and environmental conditions. For those purposes, dynamic and explicit skin-detection approaches are implemented, simultaneously considering multiple color-spaces, i.e. RGB, perceptual (HSV) and orthogonal (YCbCr) color-spaces, and then detecting the human skin by the proposed Combined Threshold Rule (CTR)-based segmentation. Comparative qualitative and quantitative detection results with an average 93 …