Image processing apparatus and image processing method
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsHiroyuki Segawa, Tetsugo Inada, Akio Ohba, Hirofumi Okamoto, Atsushi Kimura, Daisuke Tahara
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a priority degree setting section configured to set a degree of priority for each of surrounding regions of a plurality of people detected from an input image; and a pose estimation section configured to estimate poses of human body models for human body regions extracted from the input image one after another, on the basis of the surrounding regions of one or more of the people selected using the degrees of priority set by the priority degree setting section.
Claims19
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a priority degree setting section configured to set a degree of priority for each of surrounding regions of a plurality of people detected from an input image;
- and
- a pose estimation section configured to estimate poses of human body models for human body regions extracted from the input image one after another, on a basis of the surrounding regions of one or more of the people selected using the degrees of priority set by the priority degree setting section, wherein at least one of:
- the priority degree setting section sets the degree of priority in accordance with a size of a detection frame of a face detected by face detection, and
- the priority degree setting section sets the degree of priority in accordance with a degree of closeness of a human body based on depth information of the human body.
An image processing method employed by an image processing apparatus, comprising:
- setting a degree of priority for each of surrounding regions of a plurality of people detected from an input image;
- estimating poses of human body models for human body regions extracted from the input image one after another, on a basis of the surrounding regions of one or more of the people selected using the set degrees of priority;
- and
- identifying an individual from the input image,
- wherein the estimating poses of the human body models for the human body regions extracted from the input image one after another, on a basis of a degree of priority specified via an interface designed for a user to specify a degree of priority of the individual identified.
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a priority degree setting section configured to set a degree of priority for each of surrounding regions of a plurality of people detected from an input image;
- a pose estimation section configured to estimate poses of human body models for human body regions extracted from the input image one after another, on a basis of the surrounding regions of one or more of the people selected using the degrees of priority set by the priority degree setting section;
- a number limiting section configured to limit a number of people to be dealt with to an upper-limit number,
- wherein the pose estimation section prohibits the successive estimations of the poses of the human body models for a greater number of people than the upper-limit number set by the number limiting section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.