This article describes an algorithm developed under image processing

techniques to automatically obtain relevant anthropometric parameters from

frontal human faces. The algorithm first applies a Gaussian model of the skin

to detect the individual face in the scene. Later, a set of morphological

equations is applied to isolate or segment the interest regions of the face

(eyes, nose and lips). Once these regions are detected, the algorithm

calculates the reference point's coordinates and finally they are used to

obtain the anthropometric measures of interest. The implemented algorithm

is capable to automatically detect 14 of the 18 referent points defined by

Farkas for frontal faces with a mean square error less than 3 mm. With this

set of points 23 parameters are measured in an average computation time of

13 seconds