To identify a person by means of even the image other than his or her front face highly precisely.
In the monitoring device in which a photographed image is inputted from a camera and information is acquired from a storage part for storing various information, the storage part stores past information including information related with an image inputted in the past to the monitoring device and geographical information including the position information of the camera, and extracts the face image from the inputted image, and estimates a figure corresponding to the extracted face image on the basis of the past information, and decides the person corresponding to the extracted face image out of the estimated persons on the basis of the geographical information.
| JP2003204541A | 2003-07-18 | |||
| JP2002279466A | 2002-09-27 |
Yoshio Matsuda
Masahiro Fujii