A Simple and Efficient Face Detection Algorithm for Video Database Applications

The objective of this work is to provide a simple and yet efficient tool to detect human faces in video sequences. This information can be very useful for many applications such as video indexing and video browsing. In particular the paper will focus on the significant improvements made to our face detection algorithm presented in [l]. Specifically, a novel approach to retrieve skin-like homogeneous regions will be presented, which will be later used to retrieve face images. Good results have been obtained for a large variety of video sequences.