Patent Document ID: 8401251
Application ID: 12863132
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A face pose estimation device estimating a face pose representing at least an orientation of a face from a face image in which the face is captured in a time series manner, the device comprising: a face organ detector that detects a face organ from the face image; a face pose candidate set generator that generates a face pose candidate set, which is a set of face pose candidates to be estimated; a first similarity estimator that computes a first similarity according to a first parameter corresponding to respective positions of each face organ of each element of the face pose candidate set generated by the face pose candidate set generator and an actual face organ detected by the face organ detector; a second similarity estimator that computes a second similarity according to a second parameter corresponding to a pixel value according to displacements of each face image of the face pose candidate set generated by the face pose candidate set generator and an actual face image detected as a detection target by the face organ detector with respect to each predetermined reference pose; a first likelihood estimator that computes a first likelihood corresponding to the first similarity computed by the first similarity estimator; a second likelihood estimator that computes a second likelihood corresponding to the second similarity computed by the second similarity estimator; an integrated likelihood estimator that computes an integrated likelihood representing a degree of appropriateness of each element of the face pose candidate set by using the first and second likelihoods; and a face pose estimator that estimates the face pose on the basis of the face pose candidate having the highest integrated likelihood computed by the integrated likelihood estimator, the integrated likelihood being considered by the face pose candidate set generator for generating a face pose candidate set in the next time step.