Information Technology and Computer Application Engineering – Liu, Sung & Yao (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00079-7
Face detection method based on skin color and template matching
Q.H. Liu, B. Li & M. Lin
Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
ABSTRACT: In order to solve the face detection problem of color image under complex background, this paper
proposes a novel method combined with skin color detection and template matching. Firstly, after comparing
skin segmentation effects of some color spaces, YCgCb color space is confirmed to skin detection. Then using
region merging rules makes the separated face affected by accessories to merge. Further by template match
searches the faces in face candidate regions and confirms ...