Patent ID: 6141431
Filing Date: 2000-10-31
Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus comprisinga region selecting part for automatically selecting a region of hair or hair and hair shadow in a front face image of a person, on the basis of each pixel value in whole or part of the front image, and a surface model showing structural information including positions of at least eyes, mouth and eyebrows, relative to a surface of a face of the person in the front face image, anda region changing part for automatically changing each pixel value in whole or part of the selected region, on the basis of (a) color information of at least one pixel in the front face image, the at least one pixel being obtained by using said surface model and (b) said surface model,whereinthe front image is a front face image of the face of the person,the surface model shows structural information relative to a surface of the face of the person in the front face image including positions of the eyes, nose, mouth and eyebrows in the front face image,the region selecting part selects a hair region of the person in the front face image in a removal region, andthe region changing part changes each pixel value in whole or part of the removal region, on the basis of the structural information in the face surface model including the positions of the eyes, nose, mouth and eyebrows in the front face image, and color information obtained from the at least one pixel value in the front face image.