Nowadays

advances in videophone place higher quality on human facial images. To tackle this issue

a new spatial error concealment algorithm based on the facial features (FFSEC)is proposed in this paper. The algorithm is constituted by three steps. First

the lost blocks are classified by the edge detection technique so as to finish the preliminary error concealment. Second

the facial area is extracted by the facial partition technique. Finally

an interpolation is implemented according to the relative position and specific feature of the five organs

where the position of eyes is obtained by the pattern recognition technique at first. JM11 model of H.264 standard is used to evaluate this FFSEC algorithm. Simulation results showed that compared with the existing adaptive spatial error concealment based on face features (BFASEC)algorithm

when the packet dropping probability is too large

the FFSEC algorithm achieved better visual quality

with 0.5~1.5 dB gain in PSNR.