IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

An image processing method for a picture of a participant, photographed in an event, such as a marathon race, increases the accuracy of recognition of a race bib number by performing image processing on a detected race bib area, and associates the recognized race bib number with a person included in the picture. This image processing method detects a person from an input image, estimates an area in which a race bib exists based on a face position of the detected person, detects an area including a race bib number from the estimated area, performs image processing on the detected area to thereby perform character recognition of the race bib number from an image subjected to image processing, and associates the result of character recognition with the input image.

主权项

1. An image processing method, comprising:
an object detection step of detecting one or a plurality of specific objects from an input image; a first area estimation step of estimating a first area in which identification information for identifying the object exists, from a position of the object detected in said object detection step; a second area detection step of detecting a second area including the identification information, within the first area estimated in said first area estimation step; an image processing step of performing image processing with respect to the second area detected in said second area detection step; and an identification information recognition step of performing recognition processing of the identification information with respect to a processing result in said image processing step, and associating a result of the recognition processing with the input image.