M. Sharmila Kumari, Akshay Kumar, Rohan Joe D'Souza, G K Manjunath and Nishan Kotian, PA College of Engineering, India

Locating and tracking human faces is a prerequisite for face recognition and/or facial expressions analysis, although it is often assumed that a normalized face image is available. In this paper, we propose a faster, yet efficient face detection approach based on mathematical morphology and skin colour information. We have devised some simple post-processing rules to eliminate non-face regions from face regions. Experimentation on our created database is conducted to reveal the performance of the proposed approach.

Skin colour, Morphology, Segmentation, Face detection.