IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSOR AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress memory consumption or a processing amount, and to provide high-accuracy face detection technology.

SOLUTION: Correlation calculation is performed by the use of a face template and an edge image of an input image, and a face inside the input image is detected on the basis of a correlation calculation result. The face template is divided into a face internal template and a face external template and is managed. The face internal template changes by a face direction. A temporary template obtained by editing the face internal template and dynamically composing it to the face external template is used as the face template. The face template is made to correspond to a change of the face image to perform face detection robust to the face direction.

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