IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently manage and handle moving picture content.

SOLUTION: A face detecting/tracking part 11 detects one or more time series image of the face of a person from moving picture content. A one and the same person clustering part 12 generates one time series image as a face class of one and the same person. An inter-different person clustering part 13 respectively selects representative faces from each face class generated as a different person and clusters the respective representative faces to one representative face class or more. A class integrating part 14 relates classes determined as one and the same person on a real world with each other among respective classes comprising respective face classes and respective representative face classes to thereby integrate respective classes, constructing a human face database. A face recognizing part 3 uses the human face database to recognize a new recognition target face. The invention is applicable to a field in which moving picture content is handled.

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