Facial detection device, facial detection system provided with same, and facial detection method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10496874-B2
Application number	US-201615765951-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2016
Priority date	Oct 14, 2015
Publication date	Dec 3, 2019
Grant date	Dec 3, 2019

Abstract

In order to eliminate erroneous detection in a case where a plurality of facial regions are detected in a captured image, facial detection device ( 2 ) of the present disclosure is a facial detection device that detects a facial region of a person from captured images which are continuous in time series, including a processor ( 15 ) that performs facial detection processing of detecting the facial region from the captured images and error determination processing of calculating a moving direction of each facial region between the captured images that are sequential in time series, and determining whether or not the detection as a facial region is correct with respect to a plurality of facial regions in which a correlation degree in the moving directions of the facial regions is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, in a case where a plurality of facial regions are detected.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A facial detection device that detects a facial region of a person from captured images which are continuous in time series, comprising:
a processor that performs facial detection processing of detecting the facial region from the captured images, error determination processing of calculating moving directions of each facial region between the captured images that are sequential in time series, and determining whether or not detection as a facial region is correct with respect to a plurality of facial regions in which a correlation degree in the moving directions of the facial regions is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, in a case where a plurality of facial regions are detected.

2. The facial detection device of claim 1 ,
wherein, by performing the error determination processing, a facial region having the largest evaluation value of facial likeness of the facial region is determined as correct detection and the other facial regions are determined as erroneous detection, in the plurality of facial regions in which the correlation degree of the moving directions of the facial regions is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold value.

3. The facial detection device of claim 1 ,
wherein, by performing the error determination processing, a facial region, in which a coordinate value at a center of gravity of the facial region in a height direction of the person is an extreme value, is determined as correct detection and the other facial regions are determined as erroneous detection, in the plurality of facial regions in which the correlation degree of the moving directions of the facial regions is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold value.

4. The facial detection device of claim 1 ,
wherein, by performing the error determination processing, a facial region in which an evaluation value of facial likeness of the facial region is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value is determined as correct detection and the other facial regions are determined as erroneous detection, in the plurality of facial regions in which the correlation degree of the moving directions of the facial regions is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold value.

5. A facial detection system comprising:
the facial detection device according to claim 1 ; and
an imaging device that continuously captures a facial region of a person in time series.

6. A facial detection method for detecting a facial region of a person from captured images that are continuous in time series, comprising:
a facial detection processing step of detecting the facial region from the captured images, and
error determination processing step of calculating moving directions of each facial region between the captured images that are sequential in time series and determining whether or not detection as a facial region is correct with respect to a plurality of facial regions in which a correlation degree in the captured moving directions of the facial regions is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, in a case where a plurality of facial regions are detected.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tamura Hajime
• Yoshio Hiroaki
• Maeno Kazuki

Classifications

• G06V10/75

  Organisation of the matching processes, e.g. simultaneous or sequential comparisons of image or video features; Coarse-fine approaches, e.g. multi-scale approaches; using context analysis; Selection of dictionaries · CPC title

• G06V40/168

  Feature extraction; Face representation · CPC title

• G06V40/167 Primary

  using comparisons between temporally consecutive images · CPC title

• G06F18/22

  Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures · CPC title

• G06T2207/30201

  Face · CPC title