Face recognition device and face recognition method

• Main Authors: MATSUKAWA TAKAYUKI, NAKANOWATARI AKIHIRO, YOSHIO HIROAKI, AOKI KATSUJI, YAMADA SHIN
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 12.12.2012
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

Disclosed are a face recognition device and a face recognition method capable of recognizing with a high accuracy a predetermined area of a subject of a face of a person from an image acquired by image capture. The disclosed face recognition device is provided with an image capture unit (101) for capturing a person; a face detection unit (102) for detecting a face of a person from a captured image; a feature point position detection unit (104) for detecting a feature point position within a detected face; a feature value extraction unit (105) for extracting a feature value at a detected feature point position; a distance estimation unit (106) for estimating the distance between the image capture unit (101) and a face from the interval of the detected feature point positions; a feature value update unit (107) for updating the feature value extracted at the feature value extraction unit (105) according to the distance estimated at the distance estimation unit (106); and a search unit (110) for comparing the upd