Interfacing of MATLAB with Arduino for face detection and tracking algorithm using serial communication

This paper mainly describes the proposed model, face detection and tracking using MATLAB software interfacing with Arduino board. The aim of this paper is to develop a real-time application like security system that is necessary in several platforms. In this paper the real-time face detection and tracking is implemented using hardware devices like Webcam and Arduino board with Microcontroller as input and output devices respectively. The face detection algorithm has been developed on the MATLAB platform which was proposed by Paul Viola and Michael Jones. The methodology used to detect a face using some parameters of image and tracking of the detected image are clearly demonstrated in this paper.