Attention direction assessment device (200) comprising an
image acquisition section (1) for acquiring an image of occupants in a vehicle taken by a camera (9), a facial feature
inference section (2) which infers facial features of an inmate based on the image acquired through the
image acquisition section (1), a
physis inference section (5) which, based on the image acquired by the
image acquisition section (1), infers a direction in which an inmate's hand is extended, a face
direction detection section (6) which detects a face direction of the occupant based on the facial features inferred by the face feature
inference section (2), a seat
information acquisition section (21) for acquiring seat information of the occupants in the vehicle, and an attention direction assessment section (7) which, based on the direction in which the occupant's hand is extended as inferred by the
physis inference section (5), the face direction of the occupant detected by the face
direction detection section (6) and seat information acquired by the seat
information acquisition section (21), assesses the direction in which the occupant's attention is directed, where, if the direction inferred by the physique inference section (5) in which the occupant's hand is extended is a neighboring seat direction, the direction of the occupant's face detected by the face
direction detection section (6) is the neighboring seat direction, and furthermore, the seat information acquired by the seat
information acquisition section (21) shows that there is no occupant in the neighboring seat, the attention direction assessment section (7) judges that the direction in which the occupant's attention is directed is the neighboring seat direction.