A face detection and/or detection method includes acquiring a digital color image. An active appearance model (AAM) is applied including an interchannel-decorrelated color space. One or more parameters of the model are matched to the image. Face detection results based on the matching and/or different...http://www.google.ca/patents/US7965875?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7965875 - Advances in extending the AAM techniques from grayscale to color images
