The invention discloses a glasses attribute detection method based on edge projection and color characteristics. According to the method, a to-be-detected face image is inputted, pre-processing and edge detection on the image are carried out to acquire edge information images of the face image, and a face region is acquired through mouth portion positioning; secondly, whether glasses have frames is determined through transverse and vertical projection of the edge information images of an upper face portion, for framed glasses, left and right glasses regions are further determined through taking a face central axis as boundary, for frame-less glasses, left and right glass regions are determined through relative face positions, for the framed glasses, frame thickness and glasses colors are calculated according to the edge information of the glasses regions, a depth coefficient and a skin color likelihood score; lastly, brightness coefficients of the left and right glasses are calculated to detect lens reflection conditions. The method is advantaged in that the needed characteristic information is little, and rapid and accurate detection is realized.