1. A method for use in face detection, the method comprising: establishing a plurality of initial candidate windows within a digital image, said digital image having a plurality of pixels represented by color space information; for each initial candidate window, examining said color space information for each of at least a portion of said pixels within said initial candidate window and classifying each of said examined pixels as being either a skin color pixel or a non-skin color pixel; and establishing a plurality of subsequent candidate windows that includes at least a portion of said initial candidate windows based on said classified pixels within each of said initial candidate windows.