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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2017
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
One of the aspects of the present disclosure discloses an apparatus for recognizing expression of a face in a face region of an image, comprising: a unit configured to detect feature points of the face in the face region of the image; a unit configured to determine a face shape of the face in the face region based on the detected feature points; a unit configured to determine a group that the face in the face region belongs to based on the determined face shape and pre-defined shape groups; and a unit configured to determine an expression of the face in the face region based on pre-generated first models corresponding to the determined group and features extracted from at least one region in the face region, wherein the at least one of the regions are regions which are labeled out in the pre-generated first models corresponding to the determined group.