Patent ID: 8320642

Claim:
A face collation apparatus comprising: a storage that stores a feature quantity of at least one registrant, the feature quantity being extracted from a registration image of the registrant; a feature quantity extractor that extracts a feature quantity from a collation image of a collation object person; a score calculator that calculates a score indicating an analogy degree between the feature quantity of the registrant and the feature quantity of the collation object person; a score adjuster that adjusts the score using a score adjustment parameter so that any one of a stranger acceptance rate indicating a probability that a stranger is accepted at the time of collation, a principal rejection rate indicating a probability that a principal is rejected at the time of collation, and an equal error rate, which is a probability that the stranger acceptance rate and the principal rejection rate are equal, becomes substantially constant regardless of a registration condition and a collation condition; and a determination unit that determines whether the collation object person is the registrant by comparing the adjusted score and a predetermined threshold.