Article history: Received 12 September 2008 Received in revised form 23 December 2008 Accepted 2 February 2009

In this work we present the preliminary results of a face detection system based on an hybrid approach: it combines typical feature-based techniques with image-based analysis, in order to better exploit the main characteristics available in the input image. Different modules contribute to the face detection task: 1) a template-based approach initially proposed in [12], 2) an edge-extraction tec...

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The proposed system consists of two main parts. The first part is to search the potential face regions that are gotten from the triangles based on the rules of “the combination of two eves and one mouth”. The second part of the proposed system is to perform the face verijication task. The proposed face detection system can locate multiple faces embedded in complicated backgrounds. Moreover, it ...

In an image, the faces of the persons are the first information looked for. Performing face detection in a video, allows to obtain automatically "face" summaries by privileging in the summary the images where faces have been detected. Shots with a similar scene layout (same number of person, similar face position and size) are gathered within shot clusters.