Image processing apparatus

Details Image processing apparatus Image processing apparatus

1996-02-01

2000-10-31

Chang, Jon

Image analysis

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348597, 434 94, 434371, G06K 900, G09B 1910

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ABSTRACT:
An image processing apparatus has a hair region selecting part 11 for selecting hair and shade of the hair in a front face image 13, as a removal region 15, on the basis of each pixel value of the front face image 13 which is a front image of a face, and a face surface model 14 showing structural information relative to a surface of the face in the front face image 13, and a removal region changing part 12 for changing each pixel value in whole or part of the removal region 15, on the basis of the structural information in the face surface model 14, and at least one pixel value in the front image.

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