Detection of Multiple Faces in Color Images using Haar Wavelets

Face detection is a very challenging and interesting problem. In this paper, a new scheme for detection of multiple faces using Haar wavelet packet decomposition based on quantized skin color region merging under unconstrained scene conditions is presented. Color clustering and filtering using approximations of the YCbCr and HSV skin color subspaces are applied on the original image by providing quantized skin color regions. A merging stage is then iteratively