Patent Document ID: 20050013507
Application ID: 10891263
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for constructing a multi-view face database comprising: an image capturer which captures a plurality of face images of a person shown from various viewpoints including a front view face image to be included in a mosaic view; an eye position determiner which selects a plurality of key-frame images from the face images provided by the image capturer and positions of eyes corresponding to respective viewpoints to be included in the mosaic view using positions of eyes of the selected key-frame images; a face localization unit which performs localization of the face images included in the mosaic view based on the eye positions of the respective viewpoints, and arranges sizes and the eye positions of the face images shown from the respective viewpoints; and a mosaic view generator which generates the mosaic view of the person by synthesizing the localized face images having the respective viewpoints.