Editing Face detection (section)

{{Short description|Identification of human faces in images}}
{{about|face detection|face recognition systems|Facial recognition system|human face perception|Face perception}}

[[File:Face detection.jpg|thumb|Automatic face detection with [[OpenCV]]]]

'''Face detection''' is a computer technology being used in a variety of applications that identifies [[face|human faces]] in [[digital image]]s.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://facedetection.com/ |title = Face Detection: Facial recognition and finding Homepage}}</ref> Face detection also refers to the [[psychological]] process by which humans locate and attend to faces in a visual scene.<ref>{{citation|title=How we detect a face: A survey of psychological evidence|journal=International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology|volume=13|pages=3–7|year=2003|last1=Lewis|first1=Michael B|last2=Ellis|first2=Hadyn D|s2cid=14976176|doi=10.1002/ima.10040}}</ref>