This paper suggests an efficient method to extract face regions from the com]]lex background. Input image is transformed to color space, where the data is independent of the brightness and several regions are extracted by skin color information. Each extracted region is processed as an object. Noise and overlapped objects ate removed. The candidate objects, faces are likely to be included in, are selected by checking the sizes of extracted objects, the XY ratio, and the distribution ratio of skin colors. In this processing, the objects without face are excluded out of candidate regions. The proposed method can be applied for successful extraction of face regions under various conditions such as face extraction with complex background, slanted faces, and face with accessories, etc.