An Automatic Face Detection System for RGB Images

We propose a robust face detection approach that works for digital color images. Our automatic detection method is based on image skin regions, therefore a skin-based segmentation of RGB images is provided first. Then, we decide for each skin region if it represents a human face or not, using a set of candidate criteria, an edge detection process, a correlation based technique and a threshold-based method. A high face detection rate is obtained using the proposed method.

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