METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SELECTING IMAGE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of selecting an image which is easy for a user to recognize movements and shapes of the arms and legs of a person out of a plurality of camera images.

SOLUTION: The method of selecting at least one image out of the plurality of images picked up by a plurality of cameras includes a step (S301) of acquiring a plurality of images picked up by the plurality of cameras and including the person, steps (S302 to S305) of extracting a feature quantity found from a plurality of representative points including in the plurality of images and provided on an outline of a subject silhouette, an unevenness degree decision step (S306) of deciding degrees of unevenness indicating how much the shape of the subject silhouette is uneven from feature values as to the plurality of images, and a step (S307) of selecting at least one image for recognizing shapes of the arms or legs of the person from the plurality of images based upon the degrees of unevenness of the shape of the subject silhouette of the plurality of images.

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