Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
One of the aspects of the present invention discloses an image processing apparatus and an image processing method. The image processing apparatus comprises: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image containing a face; a region location unit configured to locate at least one region which represents attributes of the face in the acquired image; a feature extraction unit configured to extract features from the located regions; and a feature integration unit configured to integrate the features of the located regions which are symmetrical with each other based on symmetry of the face. According to the present invention, the dimension of the features used for image processing could be reduced and the image processing accuracy could be maintained as much as possible.
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