Face comparison verifying device and method

Abstract

The present invention is to protect the right of portrait or privacy of people other than a specific person, and to enable easy recognition of information other than the face of the specific person and the situation around the specific person. Images videotaped by the surveillance cameras are captured in the computer, face images are detected therefrom, and the detected face images are compared with the face image of a specific person registered in the storage device. As the results of the comparison, when these face images do not match with each other, a mosaic process is applied exclusively to the detected face images to protect the privacy of the people other than the specific person, whereas the mosaic process is not applied to the parts other than the faces, such as dress and baggage, thereby keeping them as they are. When these face images match with each other, the face image of the specific person is not applied with the mosaic process, thereby keeping his or her face and remaining parts as they are.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a face comparison and confirmation technology for detecting a specific person by detecting the person's face from an image captured by a camera and comparing and confirming it with a pre-registered face. Background technique [0002] At present, there is a face comparison confirmation system that has been put into use. In order to find specific people such as people who are being wanted, surveillance cameras are set up in airports, stations, shopping centers, and streets to detect a large number of non-specific people. Take a shot and save its image. In this system, the methods in the prior art are to either save the captured image as it is, or only save the facial image detected from the captured image, but in these methods, since the facial image other than the specific person is also preserved Face images of people, so there is a problem of not being able to protect the privacy of individuals related to portrait rights. ...

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However, in this announcement, since the skin color in the photographed person images is detected, and the mosaic processing is automatically performed on the face, the mosaic processing will be performed on all the photographed face images, and cannot be executed. Face mosaic processing that only excludes specific people

[0006] In addition, Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2000-216 also records the content of mosaic processing on images of people to protect privacy. All of them are mosaiced, so there is a problem that it is difficult to confirm the situation around a specific person.

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