Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Michinori Ando

Yoshihiro Adachi

Yoshiki Ninomiya

Junya Kasugai

Isahiko Tanaka

Nobuyuki Shiraki

Takeshi Hayashi

A central location of a face detecting device comprises an image input means for inputting a captured face image, a horizontal edge detecting means for detecting a horizontal edge having a predetermined vertical length based on the face image inputted by the image input means; and a central location of a face detecting means for calculating an average value of a horizontal location data of the horizontal edge detected by the horizontal edge detecting means, and determining the average value as a central location of the face.

Central location of a face detecting device, method and program

A facial parts position detection device which includes an image inputting device for inputting a captured face image, an ends position detecting device for detecting right and left ends position of the face on the basis of the image, a facial parts region setting device for setting facial parts region indicating a region where facial parts exists on the basis of the right and left ends of the face, a horizontal edge detecting device for detecting a horizontal edge on the basis of the image inputted by the image inputting device, a horizontal edge histogram creating device for creating a horizontal edge histogram by projecting the horizontal edge in a horizontal direction, a proposed position setting device for setting a plurality of peaks of the horizontal edge histogram as proposed positions respectively, and an optimum position detecting device for detecting an optimum position of the facial parts region.

Facial parts position detection device, method for detecting facial parts position, and program for detecting facial parts position

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Michinori Ando