Human area detection for mobile video telecommunication system

PURPOSE: A method for extracting a man's area in mobile communications is provided to use areas properly separated according to the kind of application by precise extraction of the face, head and body areas of a man. CONSTITUTION: A method for extracting a man's area in mobile communications includes the steps of extracting a face area from an image(S14), extracting a head area on the basis of the extracted face area(S15), extracting a body area on the basis of the extracted face area(S16), and assigning a man's area by uniting the extracted face area, head area, and body area together. First, an original image is reduced before carrying out the previous steps(S12), and the reduce image is restored to the original image size after carrying out the previous steps(S18).