Face and Eye Detection Using Skin Color and Viola-Jones Detector

In this paper, we proposed a robust face and eye detection method based on skin color and the Viola-Jones detector. First the images are segmented into skin region and non-skin region. Then, the faces are detected using a Viola-Jones face detector applied only to the skin regions. Then, in the detected faces we applied a Viol-Jones eye detector on the non-skin regions to localize the position of the eyes. The results obtained show that our method is robust and provides superior performance compared to other recently published methods.