METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROMINENT FACIAL FEATURES RECOGNITION

摘要

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for recognizing prominent facial features by forming two images of a subject, wherein one of the images is formed with illumination turned on and the other image is formed with illumination turned off. Facial image areas of each of the two images of the subject are separated, the separated facial image areas are compared with each other, and a density variation analysis is performed to analyze the variations in the light and shade in the areas being compared. A determination is then made on whether or not the presented image has the facial prominence features in accordance with the results of the analysis,.