Automatic Face Detection Using Color Based Segmentation and Morphological Operation

Abstract

Face is our important focus of attention forconveying identity. Human face detection by computer systems has become a major field of interest. Detecting the multiple faces in a digital image has gained much importance with application in many areas. Automated human face recognition has mainly divided two parts one is face detection and second one is recognition of detected faces. A paper proposes a color based segmentation algorithm for face detection in color images with detection of multiple faces in an image and separate the skin & non-skin regions using various color models i.e. HSV and YCBCR, after that the Morphological operation is used to smooth the object boundary without changing the respective area using erosion and dilation.