IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS

摘要

The present invention relates to an image processing device capable of processing of images corresponding to mixing of background images and images of moving objects. A region specifying unit 103 specifies a mixed region made up of a mixture of a foreground object component and a background object component, and a non-mixed region made up of one or the other of a foreground object component and a background object component, and outputs region information corresponding to the specifying results. A foreground/background separation unit 105 separates the input image into foreground component images and background component images, corresponding to the region information. A separated image processing unit 106 processes the foreground component images and background component images individually, corresponding to the results of separation. The present invention can be applied to an image processing device.