Measurement-target-selecting device, face-shape-estimating device, method for selecting measurement target, and method for estimating face shape

A measurement target extracting apparatus that extracts a candidate for a three-dimensional shape measurement target among a plurality of face shape candidates, the apparatus comprising:

• a facial texture evaluation value calculating section that calculates, for each of the plurality of face shape candidates, a facial texture evaluation value representing a degree of match between an input face image and a texture of the face shape candidate;
• a likelihood calculating section that calculates, for each of the plurality of face shape candidates, first likelihood between a reference face shape and the face shape candidate;
• a correlation evaluation section that calculates, for each of the plurality of face shape candidates, a first correlation evaluation value representing a degree of correlation between the facial texture evaluation value and the first likelihood;
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• an extracting section that extracts, from the plurality of face shape candidates, a face shape candidate having the first correlation evaluation value lower than a first threshold, as the measurement target.