IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To specify and track a head of a subject person, even when the detection of the face of the subject person is impossible in a moving image. SOLUTION: The image processing apparatus includes: a face detection unit 21 for detecting the face of the subject person from captured image data obtained by an imaging unit; a memory 7 for storing head information including the face of the subject person detected in the face detection unit 21; and a head tracking unit 22 for continuously detecting the head including the part from the profile to the back of the head of the subject person in the present captured image data on the basis of the head information including the face of the subject person stored in the memory 7. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT