Omron Corporation

Atsushi Irie

Tatsuya Murakami

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Shun Sakai

Nobuaki Omata

Yuki Hanzawa

Motoo Yamamoto

Atsushi Osada

Hidenobu Umeda

Naoki Maeda

Yoshihisa Minato

Takahiro Takayama

Masahiro Senga

Hiroshi Goto

Hiromatsu Aoki

Takahiro Sato

Hajime Nishidai

Miki Matsuoka

Masaaki Ikeda

Koichi Furusawa

Naohiro Tabata

Mizuki Furuta

Erina Takikawa

Kenji Takemura

Hiromi Totani

Susumu Ishiguro

Yoshiyuki Morita

Norimasa Yamanaka

Naoki Fujimoto

Yukio Ogawa

Kenji Fukuda

Kiyotoshi Okura

Nireko Matsubara

Hiroshi Soma

Mutsuki Takagiwa

Masanobu Segawa

Kiyotoshi Ookura

Masahiro Yoneda

Provided is an individual identification device including: a biometric information storage unit; a biometric information acquisition unit; an identification unit which calculates a similarity of the biometric information on the subject and the registrant and performs identification of the subject according to whether or not the calculated similarity is equal to or higher than an identification threshold; an identification result storage unit which stores identification result information constituted by the calculated similarity and a correct identification result; and a threshold setting unit which sets the identification threshold such that at least either one of a false rejection rate and a false acceptance rate fulfils a predetermined condition in the identification result information stored in the identification result storage unit.

Individual identification device, and identification threshold setting method

An image recognition device has a database in which pieces of feature data of a plurality of objects are registered while divided into classes for each of the plurality of objects; an identification unit that identifies an unknown object by evaluating which feature data of the class registered in the database is most similar to feature data obtained from an image of the unknown object, and a feature data registration unit that registers feature data in the database. The database is capable of setting a plurality of classes to an identical object. The feature data registration unit, in adding new feature data with respect to a first object already registered in the database, sets a new class other than an existing class with respect to the first object.

Image recognition device and method for registering feature data in image recognition device

An image recognition apparatus is provided, comprising: an extraction unit extracting feature amount data of a subject from an image; a database registering a plurality of pieces of feature amount data extracted from different images of one registered object; and a comparing unit identifying whether or not the subject is the registered object by comparing the feature amount data extracted by the extraction unit and the feature amount data of the registered object registered in the database, a registration unit, using an image for registration, adding feature amount data of the registered object to the database in accordance with a predetermined condition which includes a first condition: if new data, which is the feature amount data extracted from the image for registration, is similar to registered data, which is the feature amount data of the registered object already registered in the database, the new data is not added.

Image recognition apparatus and data registration method for image recognition apparatus

An identification apparatus performs classification using a plurality of classifiers, and calculates the reliability of its classification result. A data obtaining unit obtains input data. A feature quantity obtaining unit obtains a feature quantity corresponding to the input data. A plurality of classifiers receive input of the feature quantity and perform classification based on the input feature quantity. An identification unit inputs the feature quantity into each of the classifiers, and generates a single second classification result based on a plurality of classification results obtained from the classifiers. A reliability generation unit generates a reliability of the second classification result based on variations across the plurality of classification results.

Identification apparatus and method for controlling identification apparatus

An image display apparatus configured to zoom display an image to be displayed on a display area has a position specifying unit that specifies a position of an object contained in a displayed image, a position deciding unit that decides a positional relationship between an outer frame of the display area and the position of the object, and a zoom speed changing unit that changes a zoom speed in the zoom display depending on the decided positional relationship.

Image display apparatus, method of controlling image display apparatus, image display program, and computer readable recording medium recording the same

A feature value extraction section extracts a feature value from a pixel or a group of pixels of a sampling point for every plurality of sampling points for a reference point with respect to a region point on an image, and extracts a group of feature values with respect to the reference point; the location information identification section references an LRF function indicating a correspondence of the group of feature values with respect to the reference point and the location information indicating a relative location of the region point with respect to the reference point to identify the location information corresponding to the group of feature values extracted by the feature value extraction section, and the region point identification section assumes the location indicated by the location information identified by the location information identification section as a region point of the object.

Image processing device, information generation device, image processing method, information generation method, control program, and recording medium for identifying facial features of an image based on another image

An image display apparatus includes: a display screen; an image output unit configured to output an image to the display screen; a region setting unit configured to extract one or more objects included in the image and to set a first region, which is a region corresponding to each of the objects; an operation acquisition unit configured to acquire a coordinate on the display screen that has been designated by a user; and an image zooming unit configured to zoom in the image, which is being displayed, on the basis of the designated coordinate. The image zooming unit zooms in the object included in the first region when the designated coordinate is within the first region.

Image display apparatus and image display method

To prevent improper authentication, a authentication device includes a visual-line detecting unit configured to detect a visual line direction of a user, an authentication-permission visual-line direction setting unit configured to set an authentication permission visual-line direction, a biometric deciding unit configured to execute authentication by deciding whether a detected visual line direction is an authentication permission visual-line direction, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image showing a type of a visual line direction in setting an authentication permission visual-line direction and configured to cause the display unit not to display the image in executing authentication.

Authentication device, authentication method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

An image processing apparatus for extracting an area of a detection target from an image includes an image input section that acquires an image, an image generation section that generates a plurality of images with different resolutions from the image, and a segmentation section that performs segmentation using the plurality of images with the different resolutions. The segmentation section segments an image with a low resolution and then segmenting an image with a high resolution using, as a processing target area, an area in the image with the high resolution corresponding to an area near a boundary resulting from processing of the segmentation of the image with the low resolution.

Image processing apparatus and segmentation method

An image processing device comprises a part-point specifying unit configured to specify a part point of an object; a feature-quantity extracting unit configured to extract one or a plurality of feature quantities from a pixel of a sampling point or from a pixel group including the pixel of the sampling point, for each of a plurality of sampling points, and extract candidate feature quantities corresponding to the part point constituted by the extracted plurality of feature quantities corresponding to the respective sampling points, the plurality of sampling points comprising the part point specified by the part-point specifying unit and at least one point on the image other than the part point; and a feature-quantity generating unit configured to generate one or a plurality of comparison feature quantities corresponding to the part points based on a predetermined standard by using the candidate feature quantities extracted by the feature-quantity extracting unit.

Image processing device and method for comparing feature quantities of an object in images

An authentication apparatus comprises an extraction part configured to extract a feature of a face from a face image of a user; a plurality of classifiers configured to identify the user by determining whether or not the feature extracted by the extraction part matches a feature of a face stored in a storage apparatus; a deriving part configured to derive a specific condition based on at least one of the feature extracted by the extraction part and information for authenticating the user; a selecting part configured to select at least one of the classifiers based on the specific condition; and an authentication part configured to authenticate the user when the selected classifier determines that the feature extracted by the extraction part matches the feature of the face stored in the storage.

Authentication apparatus, control method of authentication apparatus, control program and recording medium

A gesture input device that controls a control device on the basis of a gesture action of a user has a gesture detecting unit that detects a gesture from an image picked up by a camera, a first gesture determining unit that determines that the gesture detected by the gesture detecting unit includes a first gesture, a second gesture determining unit that determines that the gesture detected by the gesture detecting unit includes a second gesture, and a control signal generating unit that sets a period in which the first gesture determining unit determines that the gesture includes the first gesture as a second gesture valid period in which recognition of the second gesture is valid and generates a control signal on the basis of the second gesture when the second gesture determining unit determines that the gesture includes the second gesture in the second gesture valid period.

Gesture input device and method for controlling gesture input device

An image verification device that checks an input image obtained by photographing an object to be checked against a registered image database, wherein, in the registered image database, an amount of feature of an image obtained by photographing an object is registered as a registered image, and the registered image includes registered images registered with respect to a plurality of objects, has a verification score calculating unit that calculates a verification score serving as a score representing a degree of approximation between the objects indicated by the registered images and the object of the input image by using the amount of feature of the input image and the amounts of feature of the registered images, and a relative evaluation score calculating unit.

Image verification device, image processing system, image verification program, computer readable recording medium, and image verification method

Whether an obtained candidate face image is registered or not is appropriately determined. A similarity degree calculating unit calculates the degree of similarity between a candidate face image extracted by a face image extracting unit and a registration face image registered in a storage unit. An in-class variance calculating unit calculates an in-class variance of the degree of similarity of the registered person identified by a registered person identifying unit, and an inter-class variance calculating unit calculates an inter-class variance of the degree of similarity of each registered person registered in the storage unit. A variance ratio calculating unit calculates a variance ratio between the inter-class variance and the in-class variance, and on the basis of the calculated variance ratio, a registration determining unit determines whether a target face image is to be registered or not.

Registration determination device, control method and control program therefor, and electronic apparatus

A high-accuracy matching result is obtained when a condition of a photographed input image differs from a condition of a photographed registration image. A face matching device including the registration face image, in which a person is photographed, and a photographing condition which corresponds to the registration face image are registered in a registration face image database. The face matching device includes a condition detecting unit, a registration face image selecting unit, and a matching unit. The condition detecting unit detects a photographing condition in the input face image which includes the photographed person. The registration face image selecting unit determines and selects the closest of the photographing condition from the input face image with the photographing conditions of the registration face images based on the determined closeness of the photographing condition. The matching unit performs matching using the registration face image corresponding to the selected photographing condition.

Matching device, digital image processing system, matching device control program, computer-readable recording medium, and matching device control method

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Atsushi Irie