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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Aoba, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Komori, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprising: a learning unit configured to perform learning of a discriminator based on an image feature amount in a first image and a class of the first image defined by a first granularity; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate an image feature amount in a second image whose class is known by the discriminator after the learning; and a control unit configured to control the learning unit to, in a case in which the evaluation by the evaluation unit is that a predetermined criterion is not satisfied, perform the learning of the discriminator based on the image feature amount in the first image and a class of the first image defined by a second granularity coarser than the first granularity.