Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090060290 | FACE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, FACE IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A face image processing apparatus selects feature points and feature for identifying a person through statistical learning. The apparatus includes input means for inputting a face image detected by arbitrary face detection means, face parts detection means for detecting the positions of face parts in several locations from the input face image, face pose estimation means for estimating face pose based on the detected positions of face parts, feature point position correcting means for correcting the position of each feature point used for identifying the person based on the result of estimation of face pose by the face pose estimation means, and face identifying means for identifying the person by calculating a feature of the input face image at each feature point after position correction is performed by the feature point position correcting means and checking the feature against a feature of a registered face. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060291 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a face detecting unit that detects a face area included in image data, a face-component detecting unit that detects a face component from the face area detected by the face detecting unit, and a line-of-sight discriminating unit that executes line-of-sight discrimination processing for a face image from which the face component is detected by the face-component detecting unit. The line-of-sight discriminating unit executes processing for discriminating whether a line of sight of the face image data from which the face component is detected is in a positive state in which a line of sight is directed in a camera direction or a negative state in which a line of sight is not directed in a camera direction according to collation processing for a line-of-sight discrimination dictionary in which learning data including classification data corresponding to the respective states are stored and input face image data. | 03-05-2009 |
20090196467 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold, for each combination of a first angle indicating a face direction of a first face image which includes a human face and a second angle indicating a face direction of a second face image which includes a human face, a learning dictionary including information related to positions of feature points associating the first and second face images when a similarity degree between the first and second face images is estimated, a selection unit configured to select the learning dictionary held for each combination in accordance with the combination of the first and second angles, and a similarity degree estimation unit configured to estimate a facial similarity degree between the first and second face images on the basis of feature amounts extracted from the face images corresponding to the positions of the feature points included in the selected learning dictionary. | 08-06-2009 |
20100260424 | GABOR FILTER, IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a Gabor filter, in which a value of a parameter σ of determining shapes of a plurality of Gabor functions having different orientations and frequencies is configured as a variable value expressed by a function of a frequency parameter ν of specifying the frequencies. | 10-14-2010 |
20100287125 | INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an information processing unit, an information processing method, and a program that can allow two-class classification to be correctly performed based on the outputs from two or more classifiers. | 11-11-2010 |
20100329544 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A learning unit is configured to perform Adaptive Boosting Error Correcting Output Coding learning using image feature values of a plurality of sample images each being assigned a class label to generate a multi-class classifier configured to output a multi-dimensional score vector corresponding to an input image. A registration unit is configured to input a register image to the multi-class classifier, and to register a multi-dimensional score vector corresponding to the input register image in association with identification information about the register image. A determination unit is configured to input an identification image to be identified to the multi-class classifier, and to determine a similarity between a multi-dimensional score vector corresponding to the input identification image and the registered multi-dimensional score vector corresponding to the register image. | 12-30-2010 |
20110160476 | N-Substituted Carbamic Acid Ester Production Method and Isocyanate Production Method Using the N-Substituted Carbamic Acid Ester - The present invention provides a method for producing N-substituted carbamic acid-O-aryl ester derived from a compound having an ureido group, the method comprising the step of carrying out esterification or esterification and transesterification from the compound having the ureido group and a hydroxy composition containing one type or a plurality of types of hydroxy compounds. | 06-30-2011 |
20120057790 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a registration image generating section configured to generate a plurality of registration images assuming a plurality of different lighting conditions at a time of imaging from a registration original image in which a subject to be registered is imaged on a basis of an imaging characteristic of an imaging section; a feature quantity extracting section configured to extract respective feature quantities of an identifying object image in which a subject as an identifying object is imaged and the plurality of registration images; and an identifying section configured to identify the subject of the identifying object image on a basis of degrees of similarity between the feature quantity of the identifying object image and the feature quantities of the plurality of registration images. | 03-08-2012 |
20120087574 | LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a learning device including: an acquisition section that acquires a plurality of image pairs in which the same subjects appear and a plurality of image pairs in which different subjects appear; a setting section that sets feature points on one image and the other image of each image pair; a selection section that selects a plurality of prescribed feature points, which are set at the same positions of the one image and the other image, so as to thereby select a feature extraction filter for each prescribed feature point; an extraction section that extracts the features of the prescribed feature points of each of the one image and the other image by using the plurality of feature extraction filters; a calculation section that calculates a correlation between the features; and a learning section that learns a same-subject classifier on the basis of the correlation and label information. | 04-12-2012 |
20120106789 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an image input configured to receive image data, a target extraction device configured to extract an object from the image data as a target object based on recognizing a first movement by the object, and a gesture recognition device configured to issue a command based on recognizing a second movement by the target object. | 05-03-2012 |
20120128255 | PART DETECTION APPARATUS, PART DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides a part detection apparatus including, a part detection block configured to detect a location of a plurality of parts making up a subject from an input image, and a part-in-attention estimation block configured, if a location of a part in attention has not been detected by the part detection block, to estimate the location of a part in attention on the basis of the location of a part detected by the part detection block and information about a locational relation with the detected location of a part being used as reference. | 05-24-2012 |
20120308141 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a statistical quantity extraction section calculating similarities between all of a group of multiple images of a first identification target and all of a group of multiple images of a second identification target and extracting a statistical quantity for similarity from the similarities and an identification section identifying the first identification target with the second identification target based on the statistical quantity for similarity. The present technology may be applied to a personal computer, for example. | 12-06-2012 |
20150038742 | N-Substituted Carbamic Acid Ester Production Method and Isocyanate Production Method Using the N-Substituted Carbamic Acid Ester - The present invention provides a method for producing N-substituted carbamic acid-O-aryl ester derived from a compound having an ureido group, the method comprising the step of carrying out esterification or esterification and transesterification from the compound having the ureido group and a hydroxy composition containing one type or a plurality of types of hydroxy compounds. | 02-05-2015 |