The disclosed implementations provide a system and method of detecting skin tone comprising receiving an image; determining a light intensity of the image; converting a color space of each pixel in the image into a converted value based on the light intensity; and selecting a classifier from a plurality of classifiers based on the light intensity; determining for each converted value, using the selected classifier, a probability that the converted value represents a skin tone; and detecting presence of skin tone in the image based on the determined pixel probabilities.