(Originally posted on Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials blog.)

I was looking through the new features in the MATLAB 2012a release, and one thing that caught my eye the most was some face detection algorithms have been added. This is great because I get questions about it a fair amount. I am lending the blog to my friend and colleague, Bruce, to show you what is new in this area of MATLAB.

ps. I just watched this video with someone in the office. His response: "I spent one and a half years of grad school trying to do that!"