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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
May. 15, 2020
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Heewon Kim, Seoul, KR;
Seon Min Rhee, Seoul, KR;
Jihye Kim, Anyang-si, KR;
Ju Hwan Song, Suwon-si, KR;
Jaejoon Han, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A user authentication method and a user authentication apparatus acquire an input image including a frontalized face of a user, calculate a confidence map including confidence values, for authenticating the user, corresponding to pixels with values maintained in a depth image of the frontalized face of the user among pixels included in the input image, extract a second feature vector from a second image generated based on the input image and the confidence map, acquire a first feature vector corresponding to an enrolled image, and perform authentication of the user based on a correlation between the first feature vector and the second feature vector.