an image is acquired including a red eye defect and non red eye defect regions having a red color . an initial segmentation of candidate redeye regions is performed . a location and orientation of one or more faces within the image are determined . the candidate redeye regions are analyzed based on the determined location and orientation of the one or more faces to determine a probability that each redeye region appears at a position of an eye . any confirmed redeye regions having at least a certain threshold probability of being a false positive are removed as candidate redeye defect regions . the remaining redeye defect regions are corrected and a red eye corrected image is generated .