Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Masaki Soma

Kenji Nagao

A plurality of teaching identification face image patterns of teaching persons are obtained in a first pattern obtaining process using an image scanner, and a plurality of teaching video face image patterns of the teaching persons are obtained in a second pattern obtaining process using a video camera. A feature extraction matrix, which minimizes an overlapping area between a pattern distribution of the teaching identification face image patterns and a perturbation distribution between a group of teaching identification face image patterns and a group of teaching video face image patterns, is calculated. In cases where a feature extraction using the feature extraction matrix is performed for referential face image patterns of registered persons obtained in the first pattern obtaining process, referential feature pattern vectors independent of any pattern obtaining process are obtained. When an input face image pattern of a specific person obtained in the second pattern obtaining process is received, the feature extraction is performed for the input face image pattern to obtain an input feature pattern vector independent of any pattern obtaining process. Therefore, the specific person can be recognized as a specific registered person by selecting a specific referential feature pattern vector most similar to the input feature pattern vector.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING IMAGE PATTERN, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JUDGING IDENTITY OF IMAGE PATTERNS, RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING THE PATTERN RECOGNIZING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING THE PATTERN IDENTITY JUDGING METHOD

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Yokohama, Japan

Masaki Soma