PICTURE PROCESSOR

摘要

PURPOSE: To provide the picture processor which eliminates hair from the front picture or a person's face to estimate the shape of the head in this hair eliminated part and paints out the range of this estimated head in the color of the skin of this face with respect to the picture processing where it is difficult in a conventional processor to eliminate the hair. CONSTITUTION: This picture processor is provided with a hair area selection part 11, which selects the hair and the shadow due to this hair in a front face picture as an elimination area 15 based on respective picture element values of the front face picture 13 as the front picture of the person's face and a face surface model 14 indicating the structure information to the surface of the face in the front face picture, and an elimination area change part 12 which changes picture element values in the whole or a part of the elimination area 15 based on structure information of the face surface model 14 and color information obtained from at least one picture element value in the front face picture 13.