Image identification device, image identification method, image identification program, and recording medium

摘要

The present invention provides an image identification device that uses a separating plane to classify block images into the categories. The image identification device includes an input unit that inputs the target image; a block image generation unit that divides the target image into a plurality of blocks to generate the block images; a feature quantity computing unit that computes feature quantities of the block images; and a category determination unit that determines whether the block images are classified into one of the categories or not, using the separating plane and coordinate positions corresponding to magnitudes of feature quantities of the block images in the first feature quantity space, wherein the feature quantity computing unit uses, as feature quantities for the block images, local feature quantities calculated according to image information of the block images and a global feature quantity calculated according to image information of the target image as a whole, and in a second feature quantity space where a plurality of features of the block images are used as coordinate axes, using coordinate positions of feature quantity vectors made by combining the local feature quantities of the block images and using at least one optional area, the number of block images that have the feature quantity vectors belonging to the area is counted on an area-by-area basis to be included in the global feature quantity.