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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2012
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Sotaro Tsukizawa, Osaka, JP;
Hiroyuki Kubotani, Hyogo, JP;
ZhiHeng Niu, Singapore, SG;
Sugiri Pranata, Singapore, SG;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
A measurement-target-selecting device that is capable of estimating a face shape with high precision and at low computational time. In this device, a face texture assessment value calculating part () calculates a face texture assessment value representing a degree of match between an input face image and the texture of a face shape candidate, a facial-expression-change-likelihood-calculating part () calculates a first likelihood between a face shape constituting a reference and a face shape candidate, a correlation assessment part (); calculates a first correlation assessment value representing the strength of a correlation between the face texture assessment value and the first likelihood, and a selection part () selects from among the plurality of face shape candidates as a measurement target a face shape candidate having a first correlation assessment value that is lower than a first threshold.