JPWO2008056777A1 - Authentication system and authentication method - Google Patents

Abstract

In the authentication system and authentication method of the present invention, a plurality of local three-dimensional local regions in the person to be authenticated are determined, and the three-dimensional feature amount of the face in each three-dimensional local region is calculated as a three-dimensional face feature amount. Then, the authentication operation for the person to be authenticated is performed by comparing the three-dimensional face feature value with a face feature value for comparison prepared in advance. As a result, the decrease in authentication accuracy is reduced, and the authentication speed can be improved.

Description

  The present invention relates to an authentication system and an authentication method for performing face authentication.

  In recent years, networking of information devices has progressed, and various electronic services have become widespread. Along with this, there is an increasing need for technology for performing non-face-to-face personal authentication (person authentication) that does not rely on people. In this regard, research on biometrics authentication technology (biometric authentication technology) that automatically identifies an individual based on a person's biometric features has been actively conducted. As one of the biometrics authentication techniques, a face authentication technique that performs face authentication is known. This face authentication technique is a non-contact type authentication method, and needs are high in offices and the like due to its convenience.

  By the way, in the face authentication described above, changes in shooting conditions greatly affect the authentication performance. This is because changes in shooting conditions often cause image fluctuations in the face image that exceed the identification information of the subject. The main causes that greatly affect the authentication performance are “posture change”, “light source change”, and “expression change”. Since the face has a three-dimensional shape (there is unevenness and depth), the face shape changes when the posture of the face and the illumination angle of the light source light on the face change, or the facial expression changes. By doing so, for example, partial hiding (shadow portion, dark portion) occurs in the face such as a steeply inclined portion of the cheek or nose (this is called occlusion). As a face authentication method, authentication (three-dimensional face authentication) using three-dimensional shape information (three-dimensional information) can be mentioned. In general, since the entire face is used in the three-dimensional face authentication, the partial hiding problem occurs. That is, the problem that the data at the location where the concealment occurs in the authentication process is lost and the authentication accuracy is lowered cannot be solved. In addition, when dense three-dimensional information is used, there is a problem that authentication processing takes time.

  In this regard, for example, Patent Document 1 discloses the following technique. First, the reference point of the face is extracted by examining the change in curvature of the face surface. The reference point of the face is a point where the absolute value of the curvature is maximum (for example, the nose vertex), a point where the absolute value of the curvature is maximum near the center of the side of the face (for example, the ear hole point), or the like. Next, the face orientation (inclination), that is, the face orientation is corrected by calculating the reference orientation based on these face reference points. Next, the corrected three-dimensional shape data of the face is approximated to a plane with an arbitrary size, and the unit normal vector and area of the plane are obtained. Next, the normal distribution in which the size of the unit normal vector is expressed by this area is used as a feature amount, and authentication is performed.

  However, the technique disclosed in Patent Document 1 is premised on using the entire three-dimensional shape, so-called global patch information. For this reason, since it is necessary to determine the reference direction of the face, it is not possible to determine this reference direction when partial hiding occurs in the face due to the posture variation or the like (occlusion) Authentication process cannot be executed.

  Further, for example, Patent Document 2 discloses the following technique. First, three-dimensional shape information and color information of only the face portion of a person are extracted using color information, and face data in which the three-dimensional shape information and color information are set is obtained. Next, the center of gravity of the entire three-dimensional shape of the face data (collation face data) and the dictionary face data prepared in advance is obtained and translated so that the positions of these centers of gravity coincide with each other. Rotating face data is obtained by slightly rotating around the matched center of gravity. Then, a minimum error is obtained by calculating an error between the rotated face data and the dictionary face data, and determination (authentication) is performed based on the minimum error.

However, in the technique disclosed in Patent Document 2, it takes time to obtain the minimum error by obtaining the center of gravity of the entire three-dimensional shape, and performing the translation and micro-rotation around the center of gravity. In addition, when dense three-dimensional shape data is used, the processing time is significantly increased, and the authentication speed is further reduced. In addition, when the face is partially hidden (occlusion), the authentication accuracy is lowered. Further, since the measured three-dimensional shape itself must be held, the storage capacity of the database becomes enormous.
JP-A-5-215531 JP-A-9-259271

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an authentication system and an authentication method that can reduce a decrease in authentication accuracy and improve an authentication speed.

  In the authentication system and the authentication method according to the present invention, a plurality of local three-dimensional local regions in the person to be authenticated are determined, and the three-dimensional feature amount of the face in each three-dimensional local region is used as the three-dimensional face feature amount. The authentication operation for the person to be authenticated is performed by comparing the calculated three-dimensional face feature quantity with a face feature quantity for comparison prepared in advance.

  In such an authentication system and authentication method, information on the entire face is not used as it is, but a plurality of local regions of the face are extracted, and authentication is performed based on the extracted local regions. Therefore, even if partial hiding or the like occurs in the face, it is possible to perform authentication using information on the local area excluding this portion without necessarily using the portion where the hiding or the like occurs. For this reason, a decrease in authentication accuracy is reduced, and the authentication speed can be improved.

It is a schematic structure figure showing an example of an authentication system concerning an embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the whole structure of the controller in the said authentication system. It is a functional block diagram for demonstrating the function of face authentication with which the said controller is provided. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the coordinate of the feature point in each feature part of a face. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating calculation of the three-dimensional coordinate of each characteristic site | part. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of a standard model. It is a three-dimensional graph figure for demonstrating notionally about a Gabor filter. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the method to set a rectangular area | region from each feature point of 3D face part shape data. FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram for explaining a method for extracting (determining) a local patch region from 3D face part shape data using information on a rectangular region set in FIG. 8. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the method to set a rectangular area | region from each feature point of 3D face part shape data. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of each three-dimensional point and each local patch area | region in 3D face part shape data. (A), (B), and (C) are diagrams for explaining intersection determination. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the Bezier curved surface in extraction of a 3-dimensional face feature-value. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the operation | movement of the face authentication which concerns on this embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the operation | movement in step S9 of FIG. It is a functional block diagram for demonstrating the function of face authentication with which another controller is provided. It is a flowchart which shows an example of operation | movement of the authentication system shown in FIG.

  DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, the structure which attached | subjected the same code | symbol in each figure shows that it is the same structure, The description is abbreviate | omitted.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating an example of an authentication system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of the overall configuration of the controller 10. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram for explaining the face authentication function provided in the controller 10. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of coordinates of feature points in each feature part of the face.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the authentication system 1 performs personal authentication by face (hereinafter referred to as face authentication), and includes a controller 10 and two photographing cameras (two-dimensional camera; 2D camera) (hereinafter simply “camera”). And CA1 and CA2.

  The cameras CA1 and CA2 are arranged so that the face of the authentication target person HM can be photographed from different positions (angles) with respect to the face position of the authentication target person HM. When a face image of the person to be authenticated HM is photographed by the cameras CA1 and CA2, appearance information of the person to be authenticated HM obtained by this photographing, that is, two types of face images are transmitted to the controller 10 via the communication line. Note that the image data communication method between the cameras CA1 and CA2 and the controller 10 is not limited to the wired method, and may be a wireless method. The face image may be an image including a background image as well as a face image.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the controller 10 is embodied by an information processing device such as a personal computer (PC), for example, and includes a CPU 2, a storage unit 3, a media drive 4, and a display unit 5 such as a liquid crystal display. And an input unit 6 such as a mouse 6b as a pointing device and a communication unit 7 such as a network card. The storage unit 3 includes a plurality of storage media such as a hard disk drive (HDD) 3a and a RAM (semiconductor memory) 3b. The media drive 4 reads information recorded therein from a portable storage medium 8 such as a CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory), a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk), a flexible disk, or a memory card. For example, drive devices such as a CD-ROM drive device, a DVD drive device, a flexible disk drive device, and a memory card drive device are provided. The information supplied to the controller 10 is not limited to being supplied via the recording medium 8, and may be supplied via a network such as a LAN (Local Area Network) or the Internet. The controller 10 may be a dedicated controller (main body control device) manufactured for this system, as long as it has the functions described below.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the controller 10 includes an image input unit 11, a face region detection unit 12, a face part detection unit 13, a face part 3D calculation unit 14, a posture / light source correction unit 15, and a standard A model storage unit 16, a two-dimensional authentication unit 17, a face area 3D calculation unit 18, a three-dimensional authentication unit 19, a similarity calculation unit 20, a registration data storage unit 21, and a determination unit 22 are provided. .

  The image input unit 11 inputs the face image of the person HM to be authenticated, obtained by photographing with the cameras CA1 and CA2, from the cameras CA1 and CA2 to the controller 10. The image input unit 11 includes a first image input unit 11a and a second image input unit 11b corresponding to the cameras CA1 and CA2, to which face images transmitted from the cameras CA1 and CA2 are input, respectively. Is done. Therefore, a total of two face images are input from the cameras CA1 and CA2. Here, the authentication system 1 of the present embodiment performs two-dimensional authentication (2D authentication) and three-dimensional authentication (3D authentication) using the input face image (this is referred to as multiple authentication). It is the structure which performs determination based on a result. For this reason, in the authentication system 1 of this embodiment, a two-dimensional image (2D image) and three-dimensional shape data (3D shape data) are required. The input device (2D image / three-dimensional (3D) measurement input device) for acquiring the 2D image and the 3D shape data uses a plurality of (2 to N) general 2D cameras (stereo cameras). There is. In this case, the three-dimensional shape (3D shape) of the face is calculated from two or more 2D images.

  However, the present invention is not limited to this, and other 3D shape data acquisition methods can be employed. For example, as a method for acquiring 3D shape data, a three-dimensional measuring device (3D measuring device; 3D camera) such as a non-contact three-dimensional digitizer using an optical cutting method may be used. In this embodiment, since the two cameras CA1 and CA2 are used, it is necessary to calculate the 3D shape of the face from the two 2D images (face images). However, the 3D measurement such as the non-contact 3D digitizer described above is required. When a device is used (one camera and one 3D measurement device are used), 3D shape data can be directly acquired by the 3D measurement device, and there is no need to calculate from 2D images. Further, in a 3D measurement apparatus of a type that serves both as a camera for acquiring 3D shape data and a camera for acquiring 2D images, it is not necessary to separately prepare a camera for acquiring 2D images as described above.

  The face area detection unit 12 detects (identifies and extracts) a face area from the face image input to the image input unit 11. The face area detection unit 12 includes a first face area detection unit 12a and a second face area detection unit 12b corresponding to the first image input unit 11a and the second image input unit 11b of the image input unit 11, A face area (face area image) is detected from the face images transmitted from the first image input unit 11a and the second image input unit 11b, respectively. More specifically, the face area detection unit 12 extracts (cuts out) an area where a face exists from the face image by performing template matching using a standard face image prepared in advance, for example. I do.

  The face area detection method is as follows. ~ 3. The method shown in FIG. 6 can be adopted, and other methods may be used.

  1. While scanning a window area (rectangular area) of a predetermined size for a face image, whether or not an area representing a human face is included in the window area is determined based on a pixel value in the window area and a predetermined value. (For example, Unexamined-Japanese-Patent No. 2003-22441, Unexamined-Japanese-Patent No. 8-339445). According to this method, a face area can be detected from a complex background at high speed and with a high authentication rate by a face finding algorithm that does not require motion information or color information.

2. A method using a so-called neural network that trains images of face parts of a plurality of people, stores the results as a learning dictionary, and performs face area detection determination by comparing with a newly input face image (for example, , H. Rowley, S. Baluja, and T. Kanade. “Newral Network-Based Face Detection” In IEEE Patt. Anal. Mach. Intell, .volume
20, pages 22-38, 1998.).

  3. This is a method using a detector proposed by Viola et al. (Viola-Jones detector), which stores various face area detection identifiers and uses them step by step, that is, as the comparison proceeds. A method for determining face area detection while reducing the number of identifiers (for example, P. Viola and M. Jones. Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features. In Proc. Of IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Kauai, HI, December 2001.). According to this method, it is possible to configure a discriminant function of a space where a face and a non-face are complicated by combining a plurality of simple discriminant functions using simple image feature amounts.

  In the face area detection unit 12, the first face area detection unit 12a and the second face area detection unit 12b may individually detect the face area, but only one of them may perform the detection. Alternatively, in the face area detection unit 12, the first face area detection unit 12a and the second face area detection unit 12b may individually detect the face areas, and may employ a highly accurate detection result. The face area can be detected with high accuracy by the corresponding area search processing of the face area. The same applies to the face part detection unit 13.

  The face part detection unit 13 detects (extracts and calculates) a characteristic part of the face (referred to as a characteristic part) from the face area image detected by the face area detection unit 12. Detecting a characteristic part of the face is called “face part detection”. The face part detection unit 13 includes a first face part detection unit 13 a and a second face part detection unit 13 b corresponding to the first face region detection unit 12 a and the second face region detection unit 12 b of the face region detection unit 12. The position of the characteristic part (coordinates on the image) is detected from the face area images respectively transmitted from the first face area detecting unit 12a and the second face area detecting unit 12b. The facial features include eyes (for example, the center of the pupil, the corner of the eye, the top of the eye, the upper and lower portions of the pupil), the eyebrows (for example, both ends and the center of the eyebrows), the nose (for example, the end of the nose, the lower center of the nose, or the nostrils) For example, the left and right mouth edges, the upper and lower portions of the lip center), or the tip of the lower jaw can be cited. In the present embodiment, for example, the face part detection unit 13 calculates the coordinates of the feature points Q1 to Q23 of each feature part as shown in FIG. Feature points Q1, Q3; Q2, Q4 are both ends of the left and right eyes, feature points Q7, Q5; Q8, Q6 are upper and lower portions of the left and right pupils, and feature points Q9, Q13; Q10, Q14 are , Both ends of the right and left eyebrows, feature points Q11 and Q12 are substantially central portions of the left and right eyebrows, feature points Q15 and Q16; Q17 and Q18 are end portions of the nose, and feature point Q19 is It is the lower center of the nose, the feature points Q20 and Q21 are both ends of the mouth, and the feature points Q22 and Q23 are the upper and lower portions of the center of the lips. The part of the feature point to be extracted may be set as appropriate, and can be increased or decreased as necessary. In addition, the detection of the characteristic part can be performed by various methods such as template matching using a standard template of the characteristic part.

  The calculated coordinates of the feature points Q1 to Q23 are represented as two-dimensional coordinates on each image input from the cameras CA1 and CA2. For example, regarding the feature point Q20 corresponding to the right end of the mouth as viewed from the person to be authenticated HM, the coordinate value of the feature point Q20 is obtained in each of two images G1 and G2 (see FIG. 5 described later). More specifically, the coordinates (x1, y1) of the feature point Q20 on the image G1 are calculated using the end point of the images G1 and G2 as the origin O, and the coordinates (x2, y2) of the feature point Q20 on the image G2 are calculated. ) Is calculated.

  In addition, the face part detection unit 13 calculates the coordinates of each feature point from the image of the face region, and calculates the luminance value of each pixel in a region (referred to as a feature region) having each feature point as a vertex. Is acquired as information (referred to as texture information). For example, in the case of the present embodiment, since two images are input, the face part detection unit 13 performs, for example, an average in corresponding pixels in feature regions corresponding to each other in these images (images G1 and G2). The average luminance value of each pixel is used as texture information in the feature region.

  Note that the method of detecting the face part is not limited to this. For example, as a face part detection method, a method proposed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-102043 “Detection of element positions in an image” may be employed. Further, for example, as a face part detection method, a method of detecting from the shape of the face part by using auxiliary light, a method using learning using a neural network similar to the above, or a Gabor wavelet transform or Gabor Alternatively, a method using frequency analysis by normal wavelet transform may be employed.

The face part 3D calculation unit 14 calculates the three-dimensional coordinates of the feature parts from the two-dimensional coordinates of the feature parts of the face detected by the face part detection unit 13. More specifically, the face part 3D calculation unit 14 performs two-dimensional coordinates (2D coordinates) in each image Gi (i = 1,..., N) of each feature point Qj detected by the face part detection unit 13. Based on Ui ^(j) and the camera parameters Pi (i = 1,..., N) of the camera that captured each image Gi, the three-dimensional of each feature part, that is, each feature point Qj, is based on the principle of triangulation. Coordinates (3D coordinates) M ^(j) (j = 1,..., M _f ) are calculated (so-called “three-dimensional reconstruction”). However, the symbol “N” indicates the number of cameras (N = 2 in this case), and the symbol “M _f ” indicates the number of measurement points or feature points (M _f ). Note that the three-dimensional face data obtained by collecting the 3D coordinates M ^(j) of the feature points Qj is referred to as “3D face part shape data”.

A specific example of a method for calculating the 3D coordinate M ^(j) will be described below. The world coordinate (X, Y, Z) ^{T in} space and the coordinate (x, y) on the image have the relationship shown in the following equation (1 · 1).

但し、（１・１）式中の記号「ｗ」は、０（ゼロ）でない定数（ｗ≠０）であり、記号「Ｐ」は、透視投影行列（カメラパラメータＰｉ）を表す。

However, the symbol “w” in the formula (1 · 1) is a constant (w ≠ 0) that is not 0 (zero), and the symbol “P” represents a perspective projection matrix (camera parameter Pi).

In the notation of the coordinates, a vector one-dimensionally larger is used as shown in the following equation (1 · 2). This notation is called homogeneous coordinates. In homogeneous coordinates, a constant multiple other than 0 (zero) of a vector representing coordinates, that is, (wx, wy, w) ^T and (x, y, 1) ^{T in the above,} and the like represent the same point. The homogeneous coordinates of a point in space are M = (X, Y, Z, 1) ^T , the homogeneous coordinates in the image of that spatial point are u = (x, y, 1) ^T, and “=” and “˜” The symbol (1 · 1) is expressed by the following expression, assuming that the left side is equal to a constant multiple that is not 0 on the right side because the symbol is a constant multiple if allowed to be a constant multiple: (1 · 3).

ここで、透視投影行列Ｐは、３×４の行列式であり、その各成分を以下の（１・４）式に示すものとすると、上記（１・１）式における「ｗ」を消去することによって、空間と画像との座標の関係は、以下の（１・５）及び（１・６）式に示すようになる。

Here, the perspective projection matrix P is a 3 × 4 determinant. If each component is represented by the following formula (1 · 4), “w” in the above formula (1 · 1) is deleted. As a result, the relationship between the coordinates of the space and the image becomes as shown in the following equations (1 · 5) and (1 · 6).

ここで、注意点としては、（１・３）式によって定数倍の自由度を許していることから、Ｐの各成分は、各パラメータを用いて組み合わされたものであって独立ではない。

Here, as a precaution, since the constant multiple degree of freedom is allowed by the expression (1 · 3), each component of P is combined using each parameter and is not independent.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram for explaining the calculation of the three-dimensional coordinates of each characteristic part. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, a system configured using two general cameras having different camera parameters (referred to as a first camera and a second camera) that are arranged at different free positions. Then, world coordinates (X, Y, Z) ^T and coordinates (x1, y1), (x2, y2) on images G1, G2 of the first and second cameras corresponding to the point (world coordinate point), respectively. Is expressed by the following equation (1 · 7) using the respective camera parameters P ₁ and P ₂ .

ただし、（１・７）式中の記号「ｕ_ｉ」及び記号「Ｍ」は、それぞれ以下の（１・８）式に示すものを表している。

However, the symbol “u _i ” and the symbol “M” in the expression (1 · 7) represent those shown in the following expression (1 · 8), respectively.

Therefore, when the perspective projection matrices P ₁ and P ₂ are known, the above formulas (1 · 7) and (2) are obtained from the set of the position coordinates (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) of the feature points on the image. By solving the equation (1 · 8) as an equation of w ₁ , w ₂ , X, Y, and Z, the coordinates of the feature point in space can be obtained, and thereby, three-dimensional reconstruction can be performed. That is, since the expressions (1 · 5) and (1 · 6) are obtained by eliminating w ₁ and w ₂ , the symbol “P ¹ _ij ” represents the (i, j) component of P _1. If the symbol “P ² _ij ” represents the (i, j) component of P ₂ , the following equation (1 · 9) is obtained by arranging the relational expressions. Since this equation (1.9) becomes a simultaneous linear equation of X, Y, and Z, the coordinates (X, Y, Z) of the feature point in the three-dimensional space can be obtained by solving these equations. it can. In the expression (1 · 9), four equations are given for the three unknowns X, Y, and Z. This means that the four components (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) are not independent. Similarly, the coordinates of the other feature points are calculated in space.

  Returning to FIG. 3, the posture / light source correction unit 15 performs posture variation correction and light source variation correction on the texture information calculated by the face part detection unit 13. The posture variation correction is to correct the influence on the texture due to the difference in the posture of the face, that is, the direction (tilt). The light source variation correction is to correct the influence on the texture due to the difference in the direction (tilt) of the light source with respect to the face. The posture / light source correction unit 15 is a standard model (standard stereo model; see FIG. 7 described later) which is a general (standard) face model prepared in advance for posture variation correction and light source variation correction for the texture information. Is used.

<Attitude variation correction>
(Shape information correction)
When correcting the posture variation with respect to the texture information, first, the shape of the 3D face part shape data (3D coordinates M ^{(j) of} each feature point Qj) is corrected. The posture / light source correction unit 15 corrects the 3D position so that the 3D face part shape data, that is, the 3D shape most closely matches the 3D shape of the standard model (the shape of the 3D face part shape data itself changes). do not do). In short, the posture / light source correction unit 15 performs so-called model fitting on the basis of the standard model when the face based on the 3D face part shape data is facing sideways, and the face facing sideways is the orientation of the standard model face ( The position is corrected so as to face the reference direction), for example, the front direction. This position correction is performed based on the posture parameter t (pose parameter) shown in the following equation (2).

t = (s, φ, θ, ψ, tx, ty, tz) ^Tt (2)
Here, the symbol “s” represents a scale conversion index, the symbol “φ, θ, ψ” represents a conversion parameter indicating rotational displacement (inclination), and the symbol “tx, ty, tz” is orthogonal 3 It represents a conversion parameter indicating translational displacement in the axial direction. The symbol “Tt” on the right shoulder represents “transposition”.

(Texture information correction)
Next, based on the position correction information obtained by correcting the face direction of the 3D face part shape data in the above direction, the two-dimensional texture (2D) of each feature region acquired by the face part detection unit 13 is described. The texture information is corrected so that the (texture) is in the front direction (reference direction). As a result, texture information (referred to as a front texture face image) corresponding to the case where the face is photographed from the front is reconstructed. That is, a proper normalized texture image is created. By using the front texture face image reconstructed in this way, it becomes possible to handle texture information that is not influenced (independent) by posture variation, that is, a difference in shape.

  The texture information correction is not limited to the above method. For example, the texture information correction is performed by pasting (mapping) the texture (texture image) of each feature region acquired by the face part detection unit 13 to a corresponding region (polygon described later) of the standard model. Similarly to the above, a correction method may be employed so that a front textured face image is obtained. This makes it possible to handle texture information that is not affected by the difference in posture. The front texture face image obtained by the correction may be projected onto cylindrical coordinates (cylindrical surface) arranged around the standard model so as to be easily compared with each other. The texture information of the projection image obtained by this projection is not only influenced by posture variation but also pure face texture information not affected by facial shape change due to facial expression change, etc. Useful for.

<Light source fluctuation correction>
(Texture information correction)
In the light source fluctuation correction for the texture information, for example, the luminance information of the texture is corrected. In this case, since the image captured by the camera generally includes the influence of shading due to the direction of the light source, the effect remains on the texture of each feature region in the input image. For this reason, the luminance is corrected for each feature region. More specifically, for example, the inside of the feature area is inclined so that the brightness of each pixel (node) in each feature area acquired by the face part detection unit 13 is equal to the brightness of the pixel corresponding to the standard model. In other words, the luminance is corrected by controlling the luminance value with the parameter of the tilt angle (orientation).

  The standard model storage unit 16 stores in advance information on the standard model of the face. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a standard model. This standard model is composed of vertex data and polygon data, for example, as shown in FIG. The vertex data is a set of coordinates of the vertex U of the feature part in the standard model, and has a one-to-one correspondence with the 3D coordinate of each feature point Qj. The polygon data is obtained by dividing the surface of a standard model into minute polygons, for example, polygons such as triangles and quadrangles, and expressing the polygons as numerical data. Each polygon includes pixel luminance information used in the light source fluctuation correction. The standard model may be average face data obtained by averaging the data of a plurality of people's faces. Further, the vertex of each polygon of the standard model may be configured by using an intermediate point other than the feature point Qj together with the feature point Qj. This intermediate point is calculated by interpolation.

  Returning to FIG. 3, the two-dimensional authentication unit (2D authentication unit) 17 calculates a two-dimensional face feature amount (2D face) from the texture information of each feature region formed by the posture variation correction and the light source variation correction in the posture / light source correction unit 15. (Feature amount: local 2D face feature amount; local 2D face feature amount). The 2D authentication unit 17 includes a corrected image acquisition unit 17a and a 2D feature amount extraction unit 17b. The corrected image acquisition unit 17a acquires a corrected image (referred to as a corrected texture image) in which the texture image is subjected to posture variation correction and light source variation correction in the posture / light source correction unit 15. That is, the corrected image from the posture / light source correction unit 15 is input to the corrected image acquisition unit 17a.

  The 2D feature amount extraction unit 17b extracts a 2D face feature amount from the corrected texture image acquired by the corrected image acquisition unit 17a. The extraction of the 2D face feature amount is performed by a method using Gabor wavelet transform, which is a method of extracting local grayscale information (such as a contour line in a specific direction) of the image as a feature amount. This Gabor wavelet transform can be used for the detection of the face part, and can also be used for extracting the light / dark information here. More specifically, the grayscale information obtained by applying a filter process using a Gabor filter to the corrected texture image with reference to the 2D coordinate point of the corrected texture image is extracted as a 2D face feature amount.

  FIG. 7 is a three-dimensional graph for conceptually explaining the Gabor filter. Here, as shown in FIG. 7, the Gabor filter is a spatial filter using a kernel in which a sine function (imaginary part) and a cos function (real part) are localized by a Gaussian function. It is a filter that performs conversion (Gabor wavelet conversion) that can extract grayscale information. Since the filter process by the Gabor filter is a process for local information, there is an advantage that it is difficult to be affected by the illumination variation of the image. The Gabor wavelet transform creates a kernel with various periods by fixing the shape of the kernel and expanding and contracting the kernel, and the feature quantity of the spatial period corresponding to this (Gabor feature quantity; density information here) The conversion to extract.

  The feature vector (two-dimensional feature vector; 2D feature vector) representing the feature quantity of the spatial period is an array of Gabor wavelet coefficients having different size and direction characteristics. The Gabor wavelet transform is a function that minimizes the uncertainty of position and frequency, and is represented by the following equation (3).

上記（３）式中のｋベクトルは、波の波長と方向を決める定数であり、［ ］内の第２項は、ウェーブレットの再構成条件を満たすべく関数の直流成分が０（ゼロ）、すなわちそのフーリエ変換において以下の（４）式が得られるように加えられた項である。

The k vector in the above equation (3) is a constant that determines the wavelength and direction of the wave, and the second term in [] indicates that the DC component of the function is 0 (zero) to satisfy the wavelet reconstruction condition, that is, It is a term added so that the following expression (4) can be obtained in the Fourier transform.

When such a technique using the Gabor wavelet transform is applied to a face image, abundant feature information can be extracted by various directions and shading periods, and therefore, it is adopted in a highly accurate face authentication system.

  The 2D face feature amount can be calculated by convolving the Gabor filter shown in FIG. 7 with the corrected texture image. For example, the directions are eight directions of directions {0, π / 8, 2π / 8, 3π / 8, 4π / 8, 5π / 8, 6π / 8, 7π / 8, 8π / 8}, and the scale is scale { 40 (= 5 * 8 (the symbol “*” represents multiplication) as a 2D face feature amount by convolving a plurality of Gabor filters in five stages of 4,4√2,8,8√2,16} ) Dimensional feature vectors (information on the respective shade periods) can be obtained. Note that the extraction of the 2D face feature amount is not limited to the method using the Gabor wavelet transform. The extraction of the 2D face feature amount may be any method as long as the method uses other general texture information. Further, the direction and scale are not limited to eight directions and five stages, and can be arbitrarily determined.

Returning to FIG. 3, the face area 3D calculating unit 18 uses a high-density 3D shape (3D) of the face from the image of the face area detected by the face area detecting unit 12, that is, from the stereo image by the stereo camera in this embodiment. This is to calculate face close shape data. However, the “high-density data” referred to here is data of only feature parts (3D coordinates M ^{(j) of the} feature point Qj ⁾ such as the eyes and nose of the face detected by the face part detection unit 13, that is, data. In contrast to the “rough (low density)” data with a small number of acquisition points, not only the data of this characteristic part but also the data of the entire face including the cheeks and forehead parts, that is, “dense” data with a large number of acquisition points It is shown that. The dense data acquisition points constituting the 3D face shape data are referred to as “three-dimensional points (3D points; or 3D measurement points)”. The 3D face dense shape data is face shape data including a plurality of 3D points.

  The calculation of the high-density 3D shape of the face from the stereo image is executed using, for example, a phase-only correlation (POC) method. The phase only correlation method is one of correlation calculation methods using Fourier transform, and synthesizes after normalizing two Fourier images for each spectrum. In other words, in the phase-only correlation method, when two images are given, the two-dimensional discrete Fourier transform of each image is normalized by the amplitude component, and a composite phase spectrum is obtained by calculating these products. Then, an inverse Fourier transform is performed on this. If the two images are similar, the POC function has a very sharp peak. The height of the correlation peak is useful as a measure of image similarity. The coordinates of the peak correspond to the relative displacement between the two images. Since the phase only correlation method has such characteristics, it is difficult to be affected by luminance fluctuations and noise, and corresponding points between images can be acquired with high accuracy. In other words, the phase only correlation method is a process of searching for corresponding points between different images with high accuracy, that is, matching. Also, highly accurate 3D close-fitting shape data is obtained by performing a three-dimensional reconstruction process on the acquired corresponding points. As described above, since it is assumed that a plurality of 2D cameras are used in this embodiment, a high-density 3D shape is calculated by the phase-only correlation method. However, when a 3D measurement device is used, Since it is possible to acquire a high-density 3D shape without calculating from a plurality of images, such a method may not be used.

  In addition, the following method is also mentioned as the corresponding point search by POC and multiresolution, for example. First, a reduced image is created as a multi-resolution image. Secondly, in this reduced image, corresponding point search is executed at the pixel level (pixel level). Thirdly, the reduced image is enlarged by a predetermined size by narrowing down corresponding point candidates. Fourthly, in the reduced image enlarged by a predetermined size, corresponding point search is executed around the candidate at the pixel level. Fifth, the third and fourth steps are repeated until the first image is the same size as the original image before being reduced. Sixth, a sub-pixel level corresponding point search is executed with the same size as the original image.

  The three-dimensional authentication unit (3D authentication unit) 19 3D facial features based on the 3D face dense shape data calculated by the face region 3D calculation unit 18 and the 3D face part shape data calculated by the face part 3D calculation unit 14. A quantity (local 3D face feature quantity; local 3D face feature quantity) is calculated. The 3D authentication unit 19 includes a three-dimensional local patch extraction unit (3D local patch extraction unit) 19a and a three-dimensional feature amount extraction unit (3D feature amount extraction unit) 19b. The 3D local patch extraction unit 19a extracts (calculates) a three-dimensional local patch region from 3D face dense shape data and 3D face part shape data (feature part). Hereinafter, the three-dimensional local patch region is simply referred to as “local patch region”.

  FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram for explaining a method of setting a rectangular area from each feature point of 3D face part shape data. FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram for explaining a method of extracting (determining) a local patch region from 3D face part shape data using the rectangular region information set in FIG. FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram for explaining a method of setting a rectangular region from each feature point of 3D face part shape data. FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of each three-dimensional point and each local patch region in the 3D face part shape data.

The 3D coordinates M ^(j) (referred to as feature point coordinates ⁾ of each feature point Qj in each feature part of the 3D face part shape data exist on a high-density 3D shape (3D face part shape data). The local patch area is an area defined by a relative relationship from the feature point coordinates of the 3D face part shape data with respect to the 3D face dense shape data. More specifically, for example, as shown in FIG. 8, for example, a vector on a plane (local patch extraction plane) T defined by three points of the right eye head a, the right eye corner b, and the right nose c as the feature points Qj. A rectangular area S surrounded by four points defined as a linear sum of ca and cb is defined as a right cheek area, for example. As shown in FIG. 9, among the plurality of 3D points α constituting the 3D face part shape data, a perpendicular line (vertical foot) perpendicular to the plane T from the 3D point α is rectangular. A region formed by collecting 3D points in the region S (a region when viewed as an aggregate of the 3D points) is set as the local patch region P of the right cheek portion. The local patch area P is a curved area substantially matching the actual face (here, the right cheek) shape, such as the local patch area P in the case of the right cheek (rectangular area S or local area). Not a complete planar shape defined by the patch extraction plane). Note that FIG. 9 shows conceptual 3D points when 3D close-fitting shape data is looked down from above the face. Further, the local patch extraction plane may be obtained from a plurality of feature points of four or more points.

  In this way, as shown in FIG. 10, each local patch extraction plane is set from each feature point coordinate 201 of the 3D face part shape data, and a predetermined number of rectangular regions on the local patch extraction plane, For example, a rectangular area 211 (left cheek part) and a rectangular area 212 (forehead part) are set. In addition to these, the rectangular area may be arbitrarily set to an area including facial features such as eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows as shown in rectangular areas 213, 214, and 215, for example. The facial feature portion to be set is preferably a location where facial features appear more prominently. In this way, each rectangular area is set, and each local patch area 301, 302, 303,... Corresponding to these rectangular areas is determined as shown in FIG. However, in FIG. 11, a plurality of points (plot points) 311 arranged on the entire face indicate each 3D point (α) in the 3D close-fitting shape data, and in particular, a point indicated by reference numeral 312 (in the drawing) Indicates a 3D point constituting the local patch region. The local patch region 302 corresponds to the local patch region P at the cheek location described in FIG.

  Since the face is symmetrical, it is preferable that each local patch area to be extracted is arranged at a symmetrical position on the face. In addition, the eye region may be hidden by sunglasses or the like, and the mouth region may not be 3D-measurable due to the influence of wrinkles or the like. Therefore, the extracted local patch region is at least a portion that is not easily hidden or cannot be 3D-measured. It is desirable to include the nose and cheeks (the forehead is likely to be hidden by the hair).

  The method for extracting the local patch region is not limited to this. As a local patch region extraction method, for example, a partial model shape (reference model shape) serving as a reference that the shape of the right cheek portion is such is prepared in advance, and this partial model shape is a 3D face. It may be a method of finding where in the dense shape data is applied and setting the applied location as a local patch region of the right cheek portion. More specifically, a reference three-dimensional (3D) patch shape (reference patch shape, reference partial model shape) corresponding to a local patch region to be extracted, that is, average face (standard face) data of the local patch itself, for example. The patch model obtained from the above is stored and stored in advance, and this patch model is compared with the 3D close-fitting shape data, for example, the similarity of each other's shape is compared, and this patch model on the 3D close-fitting shape data is the most. A method of determining a region having a shape similar (approximate) to the shape as a local patch region may be used.

  Further, for example, the local patch region extraction method may be a method of determining a region of 3D facial shape data included in a region defined in advance on a two-dimensional image as a local patch region. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 10, a region that can be defined based on the feature point Qj detected by the face part detection unit 13 is defined as a selection region on the two-dimensional image, and the defined two-dimensional The area of the 3D close-fitting shape data of the selected area on the image is determined as the local patch area. In this method, the region on the two-dimensional image is defined in advance by the calculation of the facial part 3D calculation unit 14, so that the defined two-dimensional image is not measured without measuring all the 3D close-fitting shape data. By performing corresponding point search and three-dimensional reconstruction only in the upper region, it is possible to measure the shape of only the local patch region, and to shorten the processing time.

  Further, for example, the local patch region extraction method may be a method of determining the local patch region by performing an intersection determination with the shape of the standard model calculated from the average face. More specifically, first, a standard model is prepared in advance, and local patch regions to be cut out in the standard model are defined, and the standard model and the local patch region on the standard model are stored and stored. Next, the three-dimensional position is corrected so that the 3D face part shape data most closely matches the three-dimensional shape of the standard model. Next, after this position correction, a triangular patch, which is a triangular area on the standard model, is projected onto the triangular patch of the 3D face part shape data around the projection center point of the standard model. The triangular patch of the 3D face part shape data is given as a patch composed of two points, a reference measurement point and an adjacent measurement point. Then, it is determined whether or not the projected triangular patch on the standard model and the triangular patch on the 3D face part shape data intersect, and if they intersect, the triangular patch on the 3D face part shape data is determined. Is determined as the local patch region. This intersection has the following three cases. When either case is satisfied, it is determined that both triangular patches intersect. FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining the intersection determination. 12A shows a first case determined to be an intersection, FIG. 12B shows a second case determined to be an intersection, and FIG. 12C determined to be an intersection. A third case is shown. In FIG. 12, the net pattern represents a standard model, and the hatched pattern represents measurement data.

1. When the triangular patch on the projected standard model is included in the triangular patch on the 3D face part shape data (FIG. 12A).
2. When the triangular patches on the 3D face part shape data are included in the projected triangular patches on the standard model (FIG. 12B).
3. When the edge part in the triangular patch on the projected standard model intersects with the triangular patch on the 3D face part shape data (FIG. 12C).

Further, for example, the local patch region extraction method may be a method of determining the local patch region by performing region determination with the shape of the standard model calculated from the average face. More specifically, first, a standard model is prepared in advance, and a map is created from the points of the standard model. That is, each three-dimensional point in the standard model point group prepared in advance is converted from the orthogonal coordinate system (x, y, z) to the polar coordinate system (spherical coordinate system) (r, θ, φ). Next, spherical coordinates (θ, φ) obtained by converting the point group of the standard model are converted into uv plane coordinates by a conversion formula. Next, a map is created by performing labeling for each local patch region to be cut out that is constituted by a point group of the standard model. The conversion formula is (u, v) ^T = (θ _{x, y} × (width−1) / (2π × width), (π / 2−φ _{x, y, z} ) (height−1) / (π × height)) ^T. Here, θ _{x, y} is an angle formed by OA and the z axis at a point A (r, θ, φ) on the spherical coordinate, and φ _{x, y, z} is a point A (r on the spherical coordinate) , Θ, φ) is an angle formed by OB and the x axis, where B is the intersection of the perpendicular line drawn on the xy plane and the xy plane. And width and height. This is the width of the projected image. Next, the point group of 3D face part shape data is processed in the same manner and projected onto the map image. Then, a region on the 3D face part shape data included in the labeled region is determined as a local patch region.

  Returning to FIG. 3, the 3D feature amount extraction unit 19 b extracts a 3D face feature amount from the information of the local patch region extracted by the 3D local patch extraction unit 19 a. More specifically, a curved surface is calculated for each local patch based on information of a plurality of 3D points in each local patch region. The calculation of the curved surface is executed by a method using a curvature map, for example. In this case, first, normalization of the local patch area is performed. For example, in the case of a rectangular local patch region, the normalization is executed by performing three-dimensional affine transformation so that the vertex of the rectangular region becomes the vertex of a predetermined standard rectangular region (standard rectangular region). Is done. In other words, conversion (three-dimensional affine transformation) is performed in which the coordinate value indicating the 3D point of the local patch region is matched with the standard coordinate value. Then, the normalized local patch region is uniformly sampled, and the curvature at each sampling point is used as the shape feature (3D face feature amount) of the local patch region. From this, it can be said that the method using the curvature map is to compare the curvatures of the local patch region and the standard rectangular region. The curvature is, for example, “Face Identification Using 3D Curvature-Face 3D Shape Feature Extraction”, IEICE Transactions Vol. J76-D2 No. 8 (August 1993) pp.1595-1603 It can be calculated by using the method disclosed in.

  The extraction of the 3D face feature value is not limited to the above method, and for example, a method of extracting the 3D face feature value by surface approximation may be used. This curved surface approximation can use various curved surfaces such as a Bezier curved surface, a bicubic curved surface, a rational Bezier curved surface, a B-spline curved surface, and a NURBS (Non Uniform Rational B-Spline) curved surface. Here, a case where a Bezier curved surface is used will be described.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a Bezier curved surface in extracting a three-dimensional face feature amount. As shown in FIG. 13, the Bezier curved surface is a curved surface F (Bezier curved surface F) defined by control points P _ij arranged in a grid with P00, P01,. In this case, the control point P _ij defines four corner points and a rough shape of the curved surface F. A Bezier surface is a polynomial surface defined in a parameter region of uε [0,1] and vε [0,1]. An n-order expression for u and an m-order expression for v is called an n × m-order curved surface and is represented by (n + 1) * (m + 1) control points. When n = m, it is called a bi-n-order curved surface. Such a Bezier curved surface is given by the following equation (5).

A Bezier curved surface F shown in FIG. 13 is a bicubic Bezier curved surface when n = m = 3. By controlling the control point P _ij (coordinate value thereof), the shape of the Bezier curved surface F is changed, and the Bezier curved surface F is approximated to the shape of the local patch region. Shape information (curved surface information) of the approximated Bezier curved surface F is obtained as patch shape information of the local patch region. Similarly, patch shape information, that is, a three-dimensional feature vector (3D feature vector) of each local patch region, that is, a 3D face feature amount, is obtained for each local patch region of the face. Then, the total 3D face feature amount is obtained by combining each piece of patch shape information (3D face feature amount) obtained for each local patch region. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and information on the relative positional relationship between each local patch region (or each patch shape information), that is, information such as the mutual distance and inclination is further added to this total 3D face feature amount information. You may make it add. In this case, since it is possible to handle “global shape information” indicating the overall characteristics of the face, the 3D face feature amount is more suitable for personal authentication.

  Note that the local patch region from which the 3D face feature amount is extracted is preferably a three-local patch region including a portion other than at least a facial feature portion (the eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, etc.). In other words, the 3D face feature value is a feature such as “forehead” or “cheek” that has no or little feature, that is, a feature is difficult to appear with a 2D feature value (feature part, 2D image) (surface irregularity change) It is preferable that the patch is extracted from a local patch region including a flat portion with a small amount of. As a result, during multiple verification with 2D authentication, that is, at the time of authentication determination based on multiple similarity, which will be described later, not only the feature quantity obtained from the part having the characteristic (feature quantity obtained two-dimensionally), but also the feature It is possible to perform authentication with higher accuracy by using information on the feature amount of the part where it is difficult to generate (a feature amount obtained three-dimensionally).

  Since the 3D face feature quantity can be handled as a 3D feature vector (vector quantity) in this way, the calculated 3D face feature quantity (3D feature vector) or a comparison feature quantity prepared in advance (described above) When the 3D feature vector for comparison corresponding to the 3D feature vector of the feature amount (comparison vector amount) is registered (stored) in the storage unit 3 of the controller 10, for example, the 3D face shape data (each 3D Compared with the case of registering the point coordinate information itself, the amount of registered data is smaller when the 3D feature vector is registered. That is, data handling is improved, for example, the memory capacity can be reduced.

  The similarity calculation unit 20 includes a facial feature amount of the comparison target person registered in advance (referred to as a comparison feature amount) and the facial feature amount of the authentication target person HM calculated as described above, that is, a 2D face feature amount (2D feature vector). ) And 3D face feature quantity (feature quantity of 3D feature vector). More specifically, the similarity calculation unit 20 performs similarity calculation based on the comparison feature value, the 2D face feature value, and the 3D face feature value, respectively, and each provides a two-dimensional similarity (2D similarity; L). 3D similarity (3D similarity; Dij) is calculated, and multiple similarity is calculated using these 2D similarity and 3D similarity. First, calculation of 2D similarity will be described.

<Calculation of 2D similarity>
The 2D similarity L between the authentication target person HM and the comparison target person is obtained by performing filtering using a Gabor filter on the F feature points in the 2D feature amount extraction unit 17b as shown in the following equation (6). The average value of the values obtained by integrating the similarities SD (Ji, Ji ′) of the F feature vectors extracted (generated) in this way is given.

ただし、上記（６）式において、２Ｄ類似度Ｌは、算出された特徴ベクトルの特徴量をＧ、登録されている特徴量をＧ’とすると、これらの類似度Ｌ（Ｇ，Ｇ’）として表現している。また、上記（６）式中の記号「ｉ」は、特徴点の個数を表し、ｉ＝１〜Ｆ（個）を示す。

However, in the above equation (6), the 2D similarity L is defined as the similarity L (G, G ′), where G is the feature quantity of the calculated feature vector and G ′ is the registered feature quantity. expressing. The symbol “i” in the above equation (6) represents the number of feature points, i = 1 to F (pieces).

ただし、上記（７）式中の記号「Ω」は、原点近傍（０変位近傍）の局所領域を表す。また、記号ｄベクトルは、位相差を表す。The similarity S _D (J _i , J _i ′) in the above equation (6) is defined by the following equation (7).

However, the symbol “Ω” in the equation (7) represents a local region near the origin (near 0 displacement). The symbol d vector represents a phase difference.

Further, S _D (J _i , J _i ′, d vector) in the above equation (7) is given by the following equation (8) in consideration of displacement correction for the phase similarity. This equation (8) has a form in which the amplitude correlation is weighted by the similarity of the phase angle.

However, the symbol “J” in the above equation (8) is J = (a ₁ , a ₂ , a ₃ ,..., A _N , φ ₁ , φ ₂ ,..., Φ _N ), N is the number of complex Gabor filters (the set of Gabor filters of the imaginary part and the real part). The symbol “a” represents the amplitude, and the symbol “φ” represents the phase. The k _j vector is a vector that faces the direction of the j-th two-dimensional wave and has a frequency magnitude, and is given by the following equation (9).

When the Gabor filter is not used, the calculation of the 2D similarity can be performed by the Euclidean distance as in the later-described 3D similarity calculation.

<Calculation of 3D similarity>
The 3D similarity between the person to be authenticated HM and the person to be compared, that is, the similarity D _ij of the shape feature quantity, is expressed between vectors corresponding to each other (3D feature vector d ^S ) as shown in the following equation (10). Can be obtained by calculating the total Euclidean distance.

<Calculation of multiple similarity>
As shown in the following equation (11), the multiple similarity that is the overall similarity between the authentication target person HM (authentication target object) and the comparison target person (comparison target person) is the 2D similarity and the 3D similarity. It is calculated by a weighted sum for each degree of similarity. The multiple similarity is indicated by Re.

但し、上記（１１）式中の記号「Ｗ」は、所定の重み付け係数を表す。ここでは、この重み付け係数Ｗは、予め決められた固定値として与える。

However, the symbol “W” in the equation (11) represents a predetermined weighting coefficient. Here, this weighting coefficient W is given as a predetermined fixed value.

  The registered data storage unit 21 stores information on face feature amounts (comparison feature amounts and comparison face feature amounts) of a comparison target prepared in advance.

  The determination unit 22 performs authentication determination based on the multiple similarity Re. The method of authentication determination differs between face verification (Verification) and face identification (Identification) as shown in (a) and (b) below.

  (A) Face collation is to determine whether or not an input face (input face; face of authentication target person HM) is a specific registrant (specific registrant). In this face collation, the degree of similarity between the face feature amount (comparison feature amount) of a specific registrant, that is, the comparison target person and the face feature amount of the authentication target person HM is compared with a predetermined threshold value, thereby comparing with the authentication target person HM. Identity with the subject is determined. More specifically, when the multiple similarity Re is smaller than a predetermined threshold TH1, it is determined that the authentication target person HM is the same person (person) as the comparison target person. Note that information on the threshold value TH1 in this case is stored in the determination unit 22. Alternatively, the information on the threshold TH1 in this case may be stored in the registered data storage unit 21.

  (B) Face identification is to determine who the input face belongs to. In this face identification, all similarities between the facial feature amount of the registered person (comparison subject) and the facial feature amount of the authentication subject person HM are calculated, and the authentication subject person HM and each comparison subject person are compared. Each identity is determined. Then, the comparison target person having the highest identity among the plurality of comparison target persons is determined to be the same person as the authentication target person HM. More specifically, the comparison target person corresponding to the minimum multiple similarity Re (Remin) among the multiple similarity degrees Re of the authentication target person HM and the plurality of comparison target persons is the same as the authentication target person HM. It is determined that the person is a person.

  FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing an example of the face authentication operation according to the present embodiment. First, the face image of the person to be authenticated HM is acquired by photographing with the cameras CA1 and CA2 (step S1). Next, the two face images obtained by the photographing are input to the controller 10 (image input unit 11) (step S2). Next, the face area detection unit 12 detects a face area image from each face image input to the image input unit 11 (step S3). From the detected face area image, the face part detection unit 13 detects the facial feature part, that is, the coordinates of the feature point and the texture information of the feature area (step S4). Then, the face part 3D calculation unit 14 calculates the three-dimensional coordinates (3D face part shape data) of each feature part from the coordinates (feature point coordinates) of the feature part of the face detected by the face part detection unit 13. (Step S5). Further, the posture / light source correction unit 15 performs posture variation correction and light source variation correction on the texture information detected by the face part detection unit 13 (step S6). Then, the 2D face feature amount is calculated by the 2D authentication unit 17 from the corrected texture image of each feature region that has been subjected to the posture variation correction and the light source variation correction (step S7).

  On the other hand, the face area 3D calculation unit 18 calculates 3D close-fitting shape data including a plurality of 2D points from the face area image (stereo image) detected by the face area detection unit 12 (step S8). Next, in the 3D authentication unit 19, the 3D local patch extraction unit 19a calculates the 3D close-fitting shape data calculated by the face region 3D calculation unit 18, and the 3D calculated by the face part 3D calculation unit 14 in step S5. A three-dimensional local patch region is calculated from the face part shape data (step S9). Then, the 3D feature amount extraction unit 19b calculates a 3D face feature amount from the information of the local patch region calculated by the 3D local patch extraction unit 19a (step S10). Next, the similarity calculation unit 20 compares the face feature amount (comparison feature amount) of the comparison target registered in advance with the local 2D face feature amount and 3D face feature amount calculated in steps S7 and S10. Similarity evaluation is performed, that is, similarity calculation based on the comparison feature value, 2D face feature value, and 3D face feature value is performed, and 2D similarity and 3D similarity are further multiplexed from these similarities. A similarity is calculated (step S11). Then, based on the multiple similarity, the determination unit 22 performs face collation or face identification authentication determination (step S12).

  FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation in step S9 of FIG. In step S9, the local patch extraction plane T is first calculated from each feature point (3D coordinate) (3D face part shape data) in each feature part calculated by the face part 3D calculation unit 14 by the 3D local patch extraction unit 19a. It is set (calculated) (step S21). Next, a rectangular area S (a partial area described later) is set on the set local patch extraction plane T (step S22). Then, a local patch region P corresponding to the rectangular region S is set, that is, a perpendicular line perpendicular to the local patch extraction plane T among a plurality of 3D points α constituting the 3D face part shape data is a rectangular region S. A 3D point α that falls within is identified, and a region composed of the identified 3D point α is set as the local patch region P (step S23).

  As described above, according to the authentication system 1 according to the present embodiment, the overall 3D shape of the face of the person to be authenticated HM is obtained by the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit (the face region detection unit 12 and the face region 3D calculation unit 18). Information on the entire 3D shape (overall 3D shape) is acquired, and the entire 3D shape information (3D close-fitting shape data acquired by the 3D shape acquisition unit by the local region determination unit (3D local patch extraction unit 19a)) ), A plurality of three-dimensional local regions (3D local regions; local patch regions), which are local regions in the entire 3D shape, are determined. Further, from the local 3D shape information (local 3D shape information) in the 3D local region determined by the local region determining unit by the 3D feature amount calculating unit (3D feature amount extracting unit 19b), the shape of the 3D local region is related. A 3D face feature value, which is local area shape information and is a three-dimensional feature value of a face, is calculated. Then, a comparison prepared in advance with the 3D face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit so as to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated HM by the feature amount comparison unit (similarity calculation unit 20, determination unit 22). The facial feature value is compared.

  Further, according to the authentication method according to the present embodiment, information on the entire 3D shape, which is the overall 3D shape of the face of the person to be authenticated, is acquired in the first step, and the entire 3D shape is acquired in the second step. From the information, a plurality of 3D local regions that are local regions in the overall 3D shape are determined. In the third step, 3D face feature amounts, which are local region shape information related to the shape of the 3D local region and are three-dimensional feature amounts of the face, are calculated from the local 3D shape information in the 3D local region. Then, in the fourth step, the 3D face feature value and the comparison face feature value prepared in advance are compared with each other in order to perform the authentication operation for the person to be authenticated HM.

  As described above, in the authentication system or the authentication method, a plurality of 3D local regions are determined from the entire 3D shape of the face of the person HM to be authenticated, and 3D face feature amounts are calculated from the local 3D shape information in the 3D local region. The authentication operation for the person to be authenticated is performed by comparing the face feature value with the comparison face feature value. Therefore, instead of using the information on the entire 3D shape of the face as it is, a plurality of local regions (3D local regions) are extracted from the 3D shape of the entire face, and authentication is performed based on the extracted 3D local regions. Therefore, even if partial hiding or the like occurs in the face, it is not always necessary to use the part in which this hiding or the like has occurred, and authentication can be performed using information of a local region other than this part. A reduction in authentication accuracy can be reduced. In addition, since it is not necessary to handle the entire 3D shape (3D data) information with a large amount of data as it is, that is, it is only necessary to handle partial 3D shape data in the local area, the processing time is shortened and the authentication speed is improved. Can be made.

In the authentication system, the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit includes a two-dimensional image acquisition unit (camera CA1, CA2) that acquires a 2D image of a face, and a feature part extraction unit (face part detection unit 13) A characteristic part that is a characteristic part of the face is extracted from the 2D image acquired by the two-dimensional image acquisition unit. Then, the 3D coordinates (M ^(j) ) of the feature part extracted by the feature part extraction unit is calculated by the three-dimensional coordinate calculation unit (face part 3D calculation unit 14), and the three-dimensional coordinate calculation is performed by the local region determination unit. A three-dimensional local region is determined based on the 3D coordinates of the characteristic part calculated by the unit.

  In the authentication method, the first step is a step including a fifth step of acquiring a 2D image of the face, and a feature portion that is a characteristic portion of the face is extracted from the 2D image in the sixth step. The In the seventh step, the 3D coordinates of the characteristic part are calculated. In the second step, a 3D local region is determined based on the 3D coordinates of the feature part.

  As described above, in the authentication system or the authentication method, the characteristic part that is a characteristic part of the face is extracted from the 2D image, the 3D coordinate of the characteristic part is calculated, and the 3D local region is determined based on the 3D coordinate. Therefore, when the 3D local region is determined, it can be associated with the information of the two-dimensional feature part, and it is possible to perform high-accuracy authentication using the information of the feature part together with the information of the 3D local region.

  In the above authentication system, the local area determination unit sets a partial area (for example, a rectangular area S) having a predetermined shape in a plane (local patch extraction plane T) determined from the 3D coordinates, and the entire 3D shape. A region corresponding to the partial region is determined as a 3D local region. In this way, a partial area of a predetermined shape is set in a plane determined from the 3D coordinates of the characteristic part, and an area corresponding to this partial area in the overall 3D shape is determined as a 3D local area. The 3D local region can be easily determined from the 3D coordinates of the feature part.

  Further, in the above authentication system, the entire 3D shape information is made into face shape data composed of a plurality of 3D points (α), and is dropped from the 3D point (α) virtually perpendicularly to the plane by the local region determination unit. A region composed of 3D points in which the vertical line is included in the partial region is determined as a 3D local region (local patch region P). As described above, since a region composed of 3D points in which a perpendicular line dropped from a 3D point to a plane virtually enters a partial region is determined as a 3D local region, it is easy to use a simple method. A 3D local region corresponding to the partial region can be determined.

  In the above authentication system, the local region determination unit compares the entire 3D shape with a reference three-dimensional partial model shape (reference 3D partial model shape; reference patch) prepared in advance. A portion having a shape most similar to the reference 3D partial model shape is determined as a 3D local region. In this way, the entire 3D shape is compared with the reference 3D partial model shape, and the portion of the overall 3D shape having the shape most similar to the reference 3D partial model shape is determined as the 3D local region, so that the 2D image is displayed. A 3D local region in the entire 3D shape can be easily determined without requiring a configuration and operation for acquiring or extracting a feature part (2D face feature amount) from the 2D image.

  Further, in the authentication system, the local region shape information is obtained by converting the local 3D shape information in the 3D local region into the predetermined curved surface information (for example, by the method using the Bezier curved surface or the like) by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit. Is calculated as As described above, the local area shape information of the 3D local area is obtained by converting the local 3D shape information in the 3D local area into predetermined curved surface information. That is, the 3D shape information is not used as it is. Is converted and handled as curved surface information (for example, curvature), so that dimensional compression is possible and the processing speed is increased.

  In the authentication system, the 3D feature amount calculation unit calculates a 3D face feature amount including information on the relative positional relationship of each 3D local region as the 3D face feature amount. As described above, since the 3D face feature amount includes information on the relative positional relationship of each 3D local region, the 3D face feature amount applies not only to individual features in each 3D local region but also to the entire face. It is possible to represent a wide range of features (can handle global shape information of the face), and more accurate authentication can be performed.

  In the authentication system, the 3D local region in the overall 3D shape is determined by the local region determining unit so that the plurality of 3D local regions are arranged at positions where the face is symmetrical. As described above, since the 3D local area is arranged in a symmetrical position on the face, the 3D local area (position) in the entire 3D shape can be efficiently determined, the processing time is reduced, and the data Handleability is improved.

  In the authentication system, the 3D local region in the overall 3D shape is determined by the local region determining unit so that the plurality of 3D local regions include at least the nose and cheek portions of the face. In this way, since the 3D local region in the overall 3D shape is determined so that at least the facial nose and cheek regions are included, the 3D local region is measured by, for example, a part (for example, a forehead) or a part that is hidden by hair. It can be set avoiding difficult parts (for example, the mouth in the case of having a mustache), the 3D facial feature quantity can be calculated from this 3D local region with high accuracy, and thus high-precision authentication can be performed. Become.

  In the above authentication system, the 2D face feature quantity that is a two-dimensional feature quantity of the face from the feature part information extracted by the feature part extraction unit by the two-dimensional feature quantity calculation unit (2D feature quantity extraction unit 17b). Is calculated. Then, a total face obtained by combining the 2D face feature amount calculated by the two-dimensional feature amount calculation unit and the 3D face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit by, for example, a weighted sum by the feature amount comparison unit. The feature amount (multiple similarity) is compared with the comparison face feature amount.

  In the authentication method, in the eighth step, a 2D face feature amount that is a two-dimensional feature amount of the face is calculated from the feature part information, and in the fourth step, the 2D face feature amount and the 3D face feature are calculated. The total facial feature value including the amount and the comparison facial feature value are compared.

  As described above, in the authentication system or the authentication method, the 2D facial feature amount of the face is calculated, and the comprehensive facial feature amount combining the 2D facial feature amount and the 3D facial feature amount, and the comparison facial feature amount, Are compared, it is possible to perform more accurate authentication using the 2D face feature value and the 3D face feature value.

  In the authentication system, the 3D feature amount calculation unit calculates a 3D face feature amount from local 3D shape information in a 3D local region including at least a portion other than the facial feature portion. Thus, since the 3D face feature value is calculated from the local 3D shape information in the 3D local region including at least a part other than the face feature part, authentication using the 2D face feature value and the 3D face feature value (multiple authentication) ), Features of parts other than feature parts that are difficult to extract as 2D face feature quantities can be included as 3D face feature quantities, that is, feature quantities that cannot be covered by 2D face feature quantities It can be covered with the feature amount, and as a result, more accurate authentication can be performed.

  In the authentication system, the feature part information for calculating the 2D face feature value is texture information, and the correction unit (posture / light source correction unit 15) relates to the facial posture with respect to the texture information. Posture variation correction that is correction and light source variation correction that is correction related to the direction of the light source with respect to the face are performed. According to this, since the posture variation correction that is correction related to the posture of the face and the correction related to the direction of the light source with respect to the face are performed on the texture information of the feature part for calculating the 2D face feature amount, An appropriate 2D face feature amount can be obtained based on the corrected texture information subjected to light source fluctuation correction, and as a result, more accurate authentication can be performed.

  In the authentication system, the 3D shape acquisition unit captures 2D images of the face with at least two imaging devices (cameras CA1 and CA2), and the 3D shape calculation unit obtains the 2D images obtained from the respective imaging devices. The entire 3D shape is calculated by performing three-dimensional reconstruction on the corresponding points obtained by the arithmetic processing using the phase-only correlation method from the two 2D images. According to this, since the entire 3D shape is calculated from two 2D images obtained from at least two imaging devices by calculation using the phase-only correlation method, it is possible to reduce the cost without using an expensive 3D imaging device or the like. In addition, the entire 3D shape can be accurately calculated by the phase-only correlation method.

  In the above authentication system, the 3D face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit is set as a vector amount (3D feature vector), and the comparison face corresponding to the vector amount is stored by the storage unit (storage unit 3). Since the comparison vector quantity (comparison 3D feature vector) as the feature quantity (comparison feature quantity) is stored, that is, the data stored as the comparison face feature quantity is measured so-called dense 3D shape data. Since it is a vector amount instead of (3D close-fitting shape data), the amount of data to be stored can be reduced (the memory capacity can be reduced), and the data can be easily handled.

  In the authentication system and the authentication method in the above-described embodiment, the multiple similarity is calculated based on the 2D face feature amount and the 3D face feature amount, and face matching or face identification authentication determination is performed based on the multiple similarity. However, the similarity may be calculated based on the local region shape information and the global region shape information, and the face collation or face identification authentication determination may be performed based on the similarity. .

  FIG. 16 is a functional block diagram for explaining a face authentication function provided in another controller. FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the authentication system shown in FIG.

  The authentication system of this embodiment is different from the authentication system 1 shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 in that a controller 30 shown in FIG. 16 is provided instead of the controller 10 in the authentication system 1 shown in FIGS. Therefore, description of the schematic configuration of the authentication system as shown in FIG. 1 and the overall configuration of the controller as shown in FIG. 2 will be omitted, and functional blocks of the controller 30 will be described below.

  In FIG. 16, the controller 30 functionally includes an image input unit 31, a face region detection unit 32, a face region detection unit 33, a face region 3D calculation unit 34, a face region 3D calculation unit 35, and a three-dimensional view. A local region extraction unit (3D local region extraction unit) 36, a local region information calculation unit 38, a global region information calculation unit 37, a similarity calculation unit 39, a registered data storage unit 40, and a comprehensive determination unit 41 It is prepared for.

  The image input unit 31 (first and second image input units 31a and 31b), the face region detection unit 32 (first and second face region detection units 32a and 32b), and the face part detection unit 33 (first and second). The face part detection units 33a and 33b), the face part 3D calculation unit 34, and the face region 3D calculation unit 35 are the image input unit 11 (first and second image input units 11a and 11b) and the face region detection unit illustrated in FIG. 12 (first and second face region detection units 12a and 12b), a face region detection unit 13 (first and second face region detection units 13a and 13b), a face region 3D calculation unit 14 and a face region 3D calculation unit 18 Since these are the same, the description thereof is omitted.

  The 3D local area extraction unit 36 extracts a 3D local area from the 3D face dense shape data calculated by the face area 3D calculation unit 35 and the 3D face part shape data (feature part) calculated by the face part 3D calculation unit 34. Extract (calculate). That is, the 3D local region extraction unit 36 is the same as the 3D local patch extraction unit 19a of the three-dimensional authentication unit 19 shown in FIG. 3, and 3D face shape data and 3D face part shape data (feature part) A dimensional local patch region is extracted (calculated). Therefore, as described above, this method of extracting a three-dimensional local patch region is performed by, for example, dropping a corresponding 3D facial shape data region locally by dropping a perpendicular to a partial region of a predetermined shape set in a plane. A method of extracting as a patch region, a method of extracting a region of 3D facial shape data most similar to a reference model shape as a local patch region, and 3D facial shape data included in a region predefined on a two-dimensional image To determine the local patch area as a local patch area, to determine the local patch area by crossing with the standard model shape calculated from the average face, and the standard model shape calculated from the average face A method of determining a local patch region by performing region determination and the like can be employed.

  The local area information calculation unit 37 extracts (calculates) local area information from information of a single three-dimensional local area (local patch area) extracted by the 3D local area extraction unit 36. In the present embodiment, the local region information calculation unit 37 uses a three-dimensional specific feature amount (local) in the facial feature portion from information on a single three-dimensional local region (local patch region) extracted by the 3D local region extraction unit 36. 3D face feature amount) is extracted. As the local 3D face feature amount extraction method, for example, an extraction method similar to the extraction method in the 3D feature amount extraction unit 19b of the three-dimensional authentication unit 19 shown in FIG. 3 described above can be adopted. That is, the local 3D face feature amount extraction method is approximated by, for example, a method of extracting curvatures at a plurality of points in the curved surface of the local patch region as the local 3D face feature amount, and the shape of the local patch region. A method of extracting shape information (curved surface information) of a curved surface as a local 3D face feature amount can be employed.

Further, for example, a method of extracting the distance between the standard model and the local patch area after performing the alignment for each local patch area using the standard model as a local 3D face feature amount can be employed. More specifically, first, in the local patch region corresponding to the definition point H of a plurality of (N _h ) standard local models defined in advance on the standard local region model used in the 3D local region extracting unit 36. Corresponding point S ′ (S ′ = (s ₁ , s ₂ ,..., S _Nh )) is acquired. Next, distances d (h _j , s _i ) between the plurality of points H of the standard model and the plurality of points S ′ of the local patch region corresponding thereto are respectively determined. Then, by calculating these multiple distances d (h _j , s _i ) as 3D feature vectors, they can be extracted as local 3D face feature amounts.

  The global region information calculation unit 38 extracts (calculates) global region shape information from the information of the three-dimensional local region (local patch region) extracted by the 3D local region extraction unit 36. In the present embodiment, the global area information calculation unit 38 uses a 3D characteristic feature (global 3D facial feature) in the entire face from information on the 3D local area (local patch area) extracted by the 3D local area extraction unit 36. Quantity) is extracted (calculated).

  The global area shape information is a word for the local area shape information, and is a feature amount of the three-dimensional shape of the entire face of the person to be authenticated. The global area shape information is calculated based on, for example, the three-dimensional local area of <1> face. Further, for example, the global area shape information is calculated based on <2> the shape of the entire face. Further, for example, the global area shape information is calculated based on <3> face three-dimensional feature points. Hereinafter, each case of <1> to <3> will be described more specifically.

<1> Calculation Method Based on 3D Local Area of Face As a calculation method for calculating a global 3D facial feature quantity based on the local patch area of the face, for example, the following <1-1> and <1-2> Is mentioned.

<1-1>
The global 3D face feature amount is calculated based on the center of gravity of the local patch region. That is, first, the centroid is calculated for each of a plurality (Nh) of local patch regions. Next, a plurality of these calculated centroids S (S = (s ₁ , s ₂ ,..., S _Nh )) and a plurality of registered centroids T (T = (t ₁ , t ₂ ,. .., T _Nh )), the corresponding distances d (t _j , s _j ) between the centroids S, T are calculated respectively. Then, the average of the calculated plurality of distances is obtained as the global 3D face feature amount distb (Formula 12).

<1-2>
Further, the global 3D face feature amount is calculated based on the normal line of the local patch region. More specifically, first, the standard model and the local patch region are aligned by SRT fitting. Next, the registration of the local patch regions to be compared is performed with higher accuracy by RT registration. Accordingly, the corresponding point is obtained by calculating again. Normal is determined for each thus determined was the N _S corresponding points, the equation 13 is the global 3D facial feature distb obtained.

<SRT fitting>
SRT fitting is a process of aligning the feature points in the measurement data with the feature points of the standard model. The SRT fitting is a process in which the standard model data is affine transformed by Equations 14 · 1 and 14 · 2 so that the distance energy between the feature points of the standard model and the feature points of the measurement data is minimized.

ここで、Ｐ_ｎｅｗは、変換後の３次元点であり、Ｍは、３行４列の変換行列であり、Ｐ_ｏｌｄは、変換前の３次元点である。また、Ｍ_ｋは、標準モデルの特徴点であり、Ｃ_ｋは、計測データの特徴点であり、ｋは、特徴点の個数であり、ｆ（Ｍ_ｋ、Ｃ_ｋ）は、標準モデルの特徴点と測定データの特徴点との距離エネルギーである。

Here, P _new is a three-dimensional point after conversion, M is a 3-by-4 conversion matrix, and P _old is a three-dimensional point before conversion. M _k is a feature point of the standard model, C _k is a feature point of the measurement data, k is the number of feature points, and f (M _k , C _k ) is a feature of the standard model. This is the distance energy between the point and the characteristic point of the measurement data.

  In SRT fitting, a transformation matrix that minimizes the distance energy is obtained by, for example, the least square method, and the position of the standard model data after the transformation is obtained. In addition, the position of the projection center point of the standard model is also converted.

<RT registration>
In the RT registration, the first measurement data T (T = {t _i | i∈N _t } including a plurality (N _m ) of points and a plurality (N _s ) different from the number of the first measurement data M second measurement data S of points of (S = _| in the {s i s∈N _s}, selected standard model N _h consisting number corresponding point group S corresponding to the point group H of the standard model '(S '= (S ₁ , s ₂ ,..., S _Nh )) and T ′ (T ′ = (t ₁ , t ₂ ,..., T _Nh )) are obtained.

Registration of the two point groups determines a rotation matrix RR and a translation vector RT such that m _i = RRs _i + TT.

ここで、行列Ａは、式１５・２である。First, the covariance matrix B is calculated using the corresponding point groups S ′ and T ′. The covariance matrix B is given by Equation 15.1.

Here, the matrix A is Equation 15.2.

ここで、ｓ’は、ｓ’＝（ｓ_ｘ’、ｓ_ｙ’、ｓ_ｚ’）であり、測定点の３次元座標を表しており、ｔ’も同様である。

Here, s ′ is s ′ = (s _x ′, s _y ′, s _z ′), which represents the three-dimensional coordinates of the measurement point, and t ′ is the same.

  From the symmetric matrix of the covariance matrix B, eigenvalue decomposition is performed by the Jacobian method, for example, and eigenvalues and eigenvectors are calculated.

A minimum eigenvalue is obtained from the calculated eigenvalues λ _j (λ ₁ ≧... Λλ _j ≧... ≧ λ _k ), and an eigenvector corresponding to the minimum eigenvalue is obtained. The matrix [φ ₁ , φ ₂ ,..., Φ _k ] constituted by the eigenvectors is selected, and the rotation matrix RR and the translation vector RT are calculated.

<2> Calculation Method Based on Whole Face Shape Examples of the calculation method for calculating the global area shape information based on the entire face include the following <2-1> to <2-6>.

<2-1>
The global 3D facial feature amount is subjected to SRT fitting by using a local patch region extracted with respect to the standard model, and is used as a deformation parameter S of the SRT fitting deformation S, movement T, and rotation R parameters. .

  The deformation parameter S is a parameter for deforming the shape of the standard model so that the definition point on the standard model and the feature point on the local patch region are fitted to the shape of the local patch region. The deformation parameter S is that the face size (horizontal width, vertical width, depth, etc.) of the same person is unchanged if the feature points used for the SRT fitting match the face feature points almost exactly. , Thought to represent an individual. For the deformation parameter S, for example, the same value is calculated even if shooting conditions such as magnification and exposure change. Further, the deformation parameter S need not use all the local patch regions. That is, a plurality of local patch regions including the nose that can be stably obtained may be collected and obtained by performing SRT fitting.

<2-2>
For each local patch region, the global 3D facial feature value is obtained by calculating the distance between each of a plurality of points defined in advance in the standard model and a plurality of measurement points on the local patch region corresponding to each of the plurality of points of the standard model. It is given by finding and averaging the distances.

More specifically, first, the standard model and the local patch region are aligned by SRT fitting. Next, on the local patch region corresponding to a plurality of (N _h ) point groups H (H = (h ₁ , h ₂ ,..., H _Nh )) previously defined on the selected standard model. A point group S ′ (S ′ = (s ₁ , s ₂ ,..., S _Nh )) of a plurality of measurement points is acquired. Next, distances d (h _j , s _i ) between the plurality of point groups H of the standard model and the plurality of point groups S of the local patch region corresponding thereto are respectively obtained. Then, an average value of the plurality of distances d (h _j , s _i ) is obtained as the global 3D face feature amount distb (see Expression 12). If alignment is performed almost accurately by SRT fitting, the corresponding point S ′ is given the same point for each subject.

<2-3>
For each local patch area, the global 3D face feature amount is obtained by projecting a plurality of points defined in advance in the standard model onto the local patch area and processing the registration data processed in the same manner as the projection points projected from the standard model. The distance is obtained for each of the projection points, and the average value of the distances is obtained.

More specifically, first, the standard model and the local patch region are aligned by SRT fitting. Next, a plurality of (N _h ) predefined point groups H (H = (h ₁ , h ₂ ,..., H _Nh )) in the selected standard model are projected onto the local patch region. To obtain a plurality of projection point groups S ′ (S ′ = (s ₁ , s ₂ ,..., S _Nh )) on the local patch region. Next, a distance d (t _j ) between a plurality (N _h ) of registered data points T obtained by performing the same processing on the selected standard model and a plurality of projection points S ′ corresponding to the local patch region. , S _i ) are respectively determined. Then, an average value of the plurality of distances d (t _j , s _i ) is obtained as the global 3D face feature amount distb (see Expression 12). If alignment is performed almost accurately by SRT fitting, the corresponding point S ′ is given the same point for each subject.

<2-4>
The global 3D face feature amount is given by calculating an average value of distances between points corresponding to each other between the local patch areas to be compared (measurement data and registered data) for each local patch area.

More specifically, first, the standard model and the local patch region are aligned by SRT fitting. Next, alignment between local patch regions to be compared is performed with higher accuracy by RT registration. Then, the RT registration _{N h} measurement point group consisting of number S using the _{'(S' = (s 1} , s 2, ···, s Nh)) and the registered point group T '(T' = ( s ₁ , s ₂ ,..., s _Nh )), the distance between corresponding points is determined. Next, an average value of the plurality of distances d (s _j , t _j ) is obtained as the global 3D face feature amount distb (Expression 16).

<2-5>
The global 3D face feature amount is given by obtaining an average value between points corresponding to each other between the local patch areas to be compared for each local patch area.

More specifically, first, the standard model and the local patch region are aligned by SRT fitting. Next, alignment between local patch regions to be compared is performed with higher accuracy by RT registration. Then, a registered point group T = {t _i | t∈N _t } composed of N _h points after alignment and a measurement point group S = {s _i | composed of N _s points different from N _h Corresponding points with sεN _s } are recalculated. The distance from the point group T at each point s _i of the point group S is d (s _i , T) = mind (s _i , t _j ) = d (s _i , m _i ). Here, “mind (s _i , t _j )” is to obtain a minimum value for d (s _i , t _j ) at jε1,..., N _t . If a point corresponding to s _i and _{m i} ∈T, corresponding point bunching M of _{s i} is, M = C (S, T ) (C recently function for obtaining the neighboring point) becomes. That is, in the point group S of the measurement data and the point group T of the measurement data, the nearest point is obtained from the points t _j of the point group T with respect to the point s _i of the point group S, and the corresponding point cloud M And Next, a distance d (s _i , m _i ) between the obtained point m _{i of} the corresponding point group M and the point s _i of the corresponding point group S is obtained. Next, an average value of the plurality of distances d (s _i , m _i ) is obtained as the global 3D face feature amount disb (Equation 17).

<2-6>
The global 3D face feature amount is given by obtaining a variance value between points corresponding to each other between the local patch regions to be compared for each local patch region.

More specifically, first, the standard model and the local patch region are aligned by SRT fitting. Next, alignment between local patch regions to be compared is performed with higher accuracy by RT registration. Then, a registered point group T = {t _i | t∈N _t } composed of N _h points after alignment and a measurement point group S = {s _i | composed of N _s points different from N _h Corresponding points with sεN _s } are recalculated. Then, the variance value Sigma of each point s _i of the point group S and each point t _j of the point group T is obtained as the global 3D face feature amount distb (Formula 18).

  In these calculation methods based on the shape of the whole face, the global area shape information is compared as a dense data group in the local patch area and as a coarse data group in the other areas. Also good.

<3> Calculation Method Based on 3D Feature Points of Face The global 3D face feature amount is calculated based on a line (feature extraction line) defined in the local patch region. More specifically, a line (feature extraction line) is defined in a predetermined local patch region set in advance. The feature extraction line is defined from a plurality of feature points in 3D face part shape data, for example. It is desirable that the feature extraction line is defined in a portion where the 3D shape feature of the face often appears in order to further improve the authentication accuracy. For example, the feature extraction line is a line including the undulations of the facial irregularities that cross the nose, for example. Next, the feature extraction line defined in the local patch area is projected onto the 3D facial shape data, and the 3D facial shape data corresponding to a plurality of points on the feature extraction line defined in the local patch area is projected. A plurality of points are obtained, and these point groups are set as global 3D face feature amounts. If there is no point on the 3D close-fitting shape data corresponding to a point on the feature extraction line defined in the local patch area, interpolation is performed from a plurality of points on the 3D close-fitting shape data in the vicinity. Desired.

  Note that the feature extraction line may be extended from the local patch area to the outside of the local patch area in order to further improve the authentication accuracy. In addition, a feature extraction line is defined for each of a plurality of local patch regions in order to further improve authentication accuracy, and a plurality of point groups on the 3D face shape data are obtained from each feature extraction line. A group may be a global 3D face feature. Further, the plurality of points on the feature extraction line may be equally spaced or unequal.

Similar to the similarity calculation unit 20 shown in FIG. 3, the similarity calculation unit 39 is configured to store a feature amount of the comparison target person (comparison feature amount) registered in advance and the local region of the authentication target person HM calculated above. The similarity is evaluated by calculating the similarity based on the shape information and the global area shape information. The similarity is calculated as local information similarity D ^sl and global information similarity D ^sb for each of the local region shape information and the global region shape information, and the similarity D _ij is a vector (3D feature vector d) corresponding to each other. ^S ) can be obtained by calculating the sum of the Euclidean distances between them (see Equation 10).

In order to calculate the local information similarity D ^sl and the global information similarity D ^sb in the similarity calculation unit 39, the registration data storage unit 40, as with the registration data storage unit 21 shown in FIG. Information on the feature amount (comparison face feature amount) of the subject is stored.

The overall determination unit 41 performs weighting W and 1-W on each of the local information similarity D ^sl and the global area shape information D ^sb, and ^obtains the sum as multiple similarity Re (Re = WD ^sl _ij + ( 1-W) D ^sb _ij ), authentication determination is performed based on this multiple similarity Re. As described above, the authentication determination may be face matching or face identification.

The overall determination unit 41 first determines based on the local information similarity D ^sl , and if the difference in the similarity is equal to or greater than the threshold in the determination result, determines that the person is another person. The determination may be made based on the global information similarity D ^sb only when it is less than the value.

  In FIG. 17, in the face authentication using the global area shape information, first, the face image of the person to be authenticated HM is acquired by photographing with the cameras CA1 and CA2 (step S31). Next, the two face images obtained by the photographing are input to the controller 30 (image input unit 31) (step S32). Next, the face area detection unit 32 detects a face area image from each face image input to the image input unit 31 (step S33). From the detected face area image, the face part detection unit 33 detects the feature part of the face, that is, the coordinates of the feature point (step S34). Then, the face part 3D calculation unit 34 calculates the three-dimensional coordinates (3D face part shape data) of each feature part from the coordinates (feature point coordinates) of the feature part of the face detected by the face part detection unit 33. (Step S35).

  On the other hand, the face area 3D calculation unit 35 calculates 3D face dense shape data including a plurality of 2D points from the face area image (stereo image) detected by the face area detection unit 32 (step S36). Next, from the 3D close-fitting shape data calculated by the face region 3D calculation unit 35 by the 3D local region extraction unit 36 and the 3D face part shape data calculated by the face part 3D calculation unit 34 in step S35. A three-dimensional local region (local patch region) is calculated (step S37). Next, the local area information calculation unit 37 calculates the local area information, that is, the 3D face feature amount in the present embodiment, from the information of the three-dimensional local area (local patch area) alone extracted by the 3D local area extraction unit 36. (Step 38). Next, the global region information calculation unit 38 calculates the global region shape information, in this embodiment, the global 3D facial feature amount, from the information of the three-dimensional local region (local patch region) extracted by the 3D local region extraction unit 36. (Step 39). Next, similarity between the feature amount (comparison feature amount) of the comparison target registered in advance by the similarity calculation unit 39 and the local region shape information and the global region shape information calculated in steps S38 and S39. Is evaluated (step S40). Then, based on the multiple similarity Re, the comprehensive determination unit 41 performs face collation or face identification authentication determination (step S41).

  When comparing the degree of coincidence of shapes for each local region by a method such as alignment, the shapes between the local regions are compared. Therefore, if the shape matching accuracy of the local region is high, the error becomes small even when the relative positional relationship between the local regions is greatly different, so that the error of other people also becomes small, resulting in a decrease in authentication accuracy. Become. Therefore, when comparing the degree of coincidence of shapes by a method such as alignment with a plurality of local regions as one global region, in addition to the shape comparison for each local region, information on the relative positional relationship between the local regions The authentication accuracy is expected to be improved. Here, for example, a three-dimensional face authentication method using an ICP algorithm such as Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2007-164670 is an effective technique from this point of view. However, the ICP algorithm actually has a processing time and a characteristic amount. It was difficult in terms. In the present embodiment, since the shape information of the global area of the face is divided into local areas and separated into the global area shape information and the local area shape information, the data amount can be reduced and the processing time can be shortened. ing. Since global area shape information is also used, authentication can be performed with higher accuracy.

  In addition, this embodiment can take the following aspects.

  (A) The area set on the local patch extraction plane T may not be rectangular like the rectangular area S. In short, if it is a partial area (partial area) on the local patch extraction plane T, The shape may be arbitrary. Moreover, the shape of the characteristic part does not need to be rectangular, and may be an arbitrary shape.

  (B) The method for determining the local patch area from the rectangular area S is a 3D point in which the perpendicular line dropped perpendicularly to the local patch extraction plane T (the leg of the perpendicular line) enters the rectangular area S as described above. It is not limited to a method, A various method is employable. For example, instead of lowering from the 3D point perpendicular to the local patch extraction plane T, it may be lowered at a predetermined angle with respect to the plane T. Alternatively, for example, a method may be used in which a virtual radial line is output from the rectangular region S in a predetermined direction, and a 3D shape range intersecting (contacting) with the line is used as the local patch region.

  (C) As shown in FIG. 1, the authentication system 1 does not have to be separated into the controller 10 and the cameras CA1 and CA2. For example, a configuration in which each camera is directly incorporated in the controller 10 may be employed. However, in this case, each camera is built in such an arrangement that the subject person HM can be photographed at different angles.

  This specification discloses various technologies as described above, and the main technologies are summarized below.

  An authentication system according to an aspect includes a local region determination unit that determines a plurality of three-dimensional local regions that are local regions of a person to be authenticated, and a local three-dimensional region in the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit A three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit for calculating a three-dimensional face feature amount which is local region shape information related to the shape of each three-dimensional local region from the shape information and is a three-dimensional feature amount of the face; A feature amount comparison unit that compares the three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit with a comparison face feature amount prepared in advance to perform an authentication operation on the person.

  The authentication system according to another aspect further includes a three-dimensional shape acquisition unit that acquires information on an entire three-dimensional shape that is an overall three-dimensional shape of the face of the person to be authenticated, and the local region determination unit includes: A plurality of three-dimensional local regions that are local regions in the whole three-dimensional shape are determined from the whole three-dimensional shape information acquired by the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit.

  According to the above configuration, the local region determination unit determines a plurality of three-dimensional local regions that are local regions of the person to be authenticated. The plurality of three-dimensional local areas are obtained by acquiring, for example, information on the entire three-dimensional shape, which is the overall three-dimensional shape of the face of the person to be authenticated, by the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit, and by the local region determination unit. The plurality of three-dimensional local regions that are local regions in the whole three-dimensional shape are determined from the whole three-dimensional shape information acquired by the shape acquisition unit. From the local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit, the local region shape information regarding the shape of each three-dimensional local region, A three-dimensional face feature value, which is a feature value, is calculated. Then, the feature amount comparison unit compares the three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit with the face feature value for comparison prepared in advance so as to perform the authentication operation for the person to be authenticated.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, instead of using the information on the entire three-dimensional shape of the face as it is, the local three-dimensional shape information in a plurality of three-dimensional local regions selected from the entire three-dimensional shape of the face of the person to be authenticated Because the authentication operation is performed based on the above, even if partial hiding occurs in the face, it is not always necessary to use the part where this hiding occurs, and using information on other local areas excluding this part Since authentication can be performed, a decrease in authentication accuracy can be reduced. In addition, it is not necessary to handle the entire three-dimensional shape information with a large amount of data as it is, and it is only necessary to handle partial three-dimensional shape data of the local region, so that the processing time is short and the authentication speed can be improved. Become.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit includes a two-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a two-dimensional image of the face, and is acquired by the two-dimensional image acquisition unit. The three-dimensional local region is determined based on a result of a feature part extraction unit that extracts a two-dimensional feature part that is a characteristic part of the face from a two-dimensional image.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit further includes a three-dimensional coordinate calculation unit that calculates a three-dimensional coordinate of the feature part extracted by the feature part extraction unit, and the local region The determination unit determines the three-dimensional local region based on the three-dimensional coordinates of the characteristic part calculated by the three-dimensional coordinate calculation unit.

  According to the above configuration, the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit includes the two-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a two-dimensional image of the face, and the characteristic of the face from the two-dimensional image acquired by the two-dimensional image acquisition unit. A three-dimensional local region is determined based on the result of the feature part extraction unit that extracts a two-dimensional feature part that is a complex part. For example, a feature part that is a characteristic part of the face is extracted from the two-dimensional image acquired by the two-dimensional image acquisition unit by the feature part extraction unit, and the feature part is extracted by the three-dimensional coordinate calculation unit. The three-dimensional coordinates of the feature part extracted by the part extraction unit are calculated, and the three-dimensional local region is determined by the local region determination unit based on the three-dimensional coordinates of the feature part calculated by the three-dimensional coordinate calculation unit. The

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, when determining the three-dimensional local region, it can be associated with the information of the two-dimensional feature part, and high-precision authentication using the feature part information together with the information of the three-dimensional local region. Can be performed.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the feature part extraction unit further includes a two-dimensional local region extraction unit that extracts a local region on a two-dimensional image from the extracted two-dimensional feature part, and the three-dimensional The local region determination unit determines the three-dimensional local region based on the two-dimensional local region calculated by the two-dimensional local region extraction unit.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the local region determination unit calculates and extracts only a region corresponding to the two-dimensional local region as the three-dimensional local region.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the local region determination unit sets a partial region having a predetermined shape in a plane determined from the three-dimensional coordinates, and a region corresponding to the partial region in the entire three-dimensional shape. Is determined as the three-dimensional local region.

  According to the above configuration, the partial region having a predetermined shape is set in the plane determined from the three-dimensional coordinates by the local region determination unit, and the region corresponding to the partial region in the entire three-dimensional shape is determined as the three-dimensional local region. Is done.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, the three-dimensional local region can be easily determined from the three-dimensional coordinates of the characteristic portion using a simple method.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the entire three-dimensional shape information is face shape data including a plurality of three-dimensional points, and the local region determination unit is virtual from the three-dimensional points to the plane. In other words, a region constituted by three-dimensional points in which a perpendicular line dropped vertically is included in the partial region is determined as the three-dimensional local region.

  According to the above configuration, the entire 3D shape information is the face shape data including a plurality of 3D points, and the vertical line dropped from the 3D points to the plane virtually by the local region determination unit is partially A region composed of three-dimensional points in the region is determined as a three-dimensional local region.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, the three-dimensional local region corresponding to the partial region can be easily determined using a simple method.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the local region determination unit compares the entire three-dimensional shape with a reference three-dimensional partial model shape prepared in advance, and uses the reference three-dimensional shape for the reference. A portion having a shape most similar to the three-dimensional partial model shape is determined as the three-dimensional local region.

  According to the above configuration, the local region determining unit compares the entire three-dimensional shape with the reference three-dimensional partial model shape prepared in advance, and is most similar to the reference three-dimensional partial model shape in the total three-dimensional shape. A portion having the shape is determined as a three-dimensional local region.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, a configuration and operation for acquiring a two-dimensional image and extracting a feature part (two-dimensional face feature amount) from the two-dimensional image are not required, and the whole three-dimensional image can be easily obtained. A three-dimensional local region in the shape can be determined.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the local region determination unit converts the entire three-dimensional shape and local region information defined on a reference three-dimensional partial model shape prepared in advance into the same space. The three-dimensional local region by comparing the overall three-dimensional shape in the same space transformed by the same space transformation unit with the reference three-dimensional partial model shape. decide.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional local region determination unit compares the inclusion relationship between the three-dimensional surface on the reference three-dimensional model and the three-dimensional surface of the entire three-dimensional shape. The three-dimensional local region is determined.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional local region determination unit compares the inclusion relationship between the three-dimensional surface on the reference three-dimensional model and the three-dimensional coordinate points of the entire three-dimensional shape. To determine the three-dimensional local region.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional local region determination unit compares an inclusion relation between a three-dimensional coordinate point on the reference three-dimensional model and a three-dimensional surface of the entire three-dimensional shape. To determine the three-dimensional local region.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit is set as dense data, and the three-dimensional local outside region determined other than the three-dimensional local region is set as sparse data. Hold as.

  According to the above configuration, the local region determination unit includes the same space conversion unit that converts the entire three-dimensional shape and local region information defined on the reference three-dimensional partial model shape prepared in advance into the same space. The same space conversion unit compares the inclusion relation between the entire three-dimensional shape and the reference three-dimensional partial model shape in the converted same space, and determines a three-dimensional local region according to the comparison result. Is done. Therefore, according to this authentication system, the three-dimensional local region in the entire three-dimensional shape can be easily determined.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional feature amount calculating unit calculates the local three-dimensional shape information calculated from the three-dimensional local region as the local region shape information.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates, as the local region shape information, the information obtained by converting local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region into predetermined curved surface information.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates the local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region between the definition points defined on the standard model and the corresponding points of the three-dimensional local region. The distance information converted into a vector is calculated as the local region shape information.

  According to the above configuration, the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates the local three-dimensional shape information from the three-dimensional local region as the local region shape information. For example, the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates the local region shape information obtained by converting the local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region into predetermined curved surface information. Further, for example, the local 3D shape information in the 3D local region converted into the vector by converting the distance information between the defined point defined on the standard model and the corresponding point of the 3D local region into a vector by the 3D feature amount calculation unit Calculated as region shape information.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, the three-dimensional shape information is not used as it is, but the local three-dimensional shape information calculated from the three-dimensional local region, for example, the curved surface information ( For example, dimensional compression is possible and the processing speed is increased.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates a three-dimensional face feature amount including information on a positional relationship between three-dimensional local regions as the three-dimensional face feature amount.

  According to the above configuration, the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates a three-dimensional face feature amount including information on the relative positional relationship of each three-dimensional local region as the three-dimensional face feature amount.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, it is possible to represent not only individual features in each three-dimensional local region but also features over the entire face by this three-dimensional face feature amount (the global shape information of the face). Can be handled), and more accurate authentication can be performed.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the local region determination unit includes a three-dimensional local region in the overall three-dimensional shape so that the plurality of three-dimensional local regions are arranged at positions that are symmetrical with respect to the face. To decide.

  According to the above configuration, the three-dimensional local area in the entire three-dimensional shape is determined by the local area determination unit so that the plurality of three-dimensional local areas are arranged at positions where the face is symmetrical.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, it becomes possible to efficiently determine the (position) of the three-dimensional local region in the entire three-dimensional shape, the processing time is shortened, and the data handling property is improved.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the local region determination unit includes the three-dimensional local region in the entire three-dimensional shape so that the plurality of three-dimensional local regions include at least the nose and cheek portions of the face. To decide.

  According to the above configuration, the three-dimensional local area in the overall three-dimensional shape is determined by the local area determining unit so that the plurality of three-dimensional local areas include at least the nose and cheek portions of the face.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, the three-dimensional local region can be set avoiding, for example, a part that is hidden by hair (for example, a forehead) or a part that is difficult to measure (for example, a mouth when having a mustache). Thus, it is possible to calculate the three-dimensional face feature amount from the three-dimensional local region with high accuracy, and it is possible to perform high-accuracy authentication.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, a two-dimensional feature amount calculation unit that calculates a two-dimensional face feature amount that is a two-dimensional feature amount of the face from information on the feature portion extracted by the feature portion extraction unit. And the feature quantity comparison unit combines the two-dimensional face feature quantity calculated by the two-dimensional feature quantity calculation unit and the three-dimensional face feature quantity calculated by the three-dimensional feature quantity calculation unit. A typical face feature amount is compared with the comparison face feature amount.

  According to the above configuration, the two-dimensional feature quantity calculation unit calculates a two-dimensional face feature quantity, which is a two-dimensional feature quantity of the face, from the feature part information extracted by the feature part extraction unit. Then, a comprehensive face feature value obtained by combining the two-dimensional face feature value calculated by the two-dimensional feature value calculation unit and the three-dimensional face feature value calculated by the three-dimensional feature value calculation unit by the feature value comparison unit. Are compared with the comparison facial feature amount.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, it is possible to perform more accurate authentication using the two-dimensional face feature value and the three-dimensional face feature value.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates the three-dimensional face feature amount from local three-dimensional shape information in a three-dimensional local region including at least a portion other than the facial feature portion. To do.

  According to the above configuration, the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates the three-dimensional face feature amount from the local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region including at least a portion other than the facial feature portion.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, when performing authentication (multiple authentication) using a two-dimensional face feature value and a three-dimensional face feature value, a part other than a feature part where it is difficult to extract a feature as a two-dimensional face feature value. The feature can be included as a three-dimensional face feature amount. For this reason, the feature quantity that cannot be covered by the two-dimensional face feature quantity can be covered by the three-dimensional face feature quantity, and as a result, more accurate authentication can be performed.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the feature part information for calculating the two-dimensional face feature amount is texture information, and the posture variation is correction regarding the posture of the face with respect to the texture information. The image forming apparatus further includes a correction unit that performs light source fluctuation correction that is correction and correction related to the direction of the light source with respect to the face.

  According to the above configuration, the feature part information for calculating the two-dimensional face feature amount is texture information, and the correction unit corrects the posture variation and corrects the posture of the face with respect to the texture information. Light source fluctuation correction, which is correction related to the direction of the light source with respect to the face, is performed.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, an appropriate two-dimensional face feature amount can be obtained based on the texture information subjected to the posture variation correction and the light source variation correction, and as a result, more accurate authentication can be performed.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit includes at least two photographing devices that photograph the two-dimensional image of the face and two two-dimensional images obtained from the photographing devices. And a three-dimensional shape calculation unit for calculating the whole three-dimensional shape by performing a high-accuracy corresponding point search process by calculation using the phase-only correlation method and performing three-dimensional reconstruction.

  According to the above configuration, the two-dimensional image of the face is photographed by at least two photographing devices in the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit, and the two two-dimensional images obtained from the photographing devices by the three-dimensional shape calculating unit. High-accuracy corresponding point search processing is performed by calculation using the phase-only correlation method, and three-dimensional reconstruction is performed, whereby the entire three-dimensional shape is calculated.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, it is possible to calculate the entire three-dimensional shape with high accuracy by the phase-only correlation method at a low cost without using an expensive three-dimensional imaging apparatus or the like.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit is a vector amount, and is used as a comparison face feature amount corresponding to the vector amount. A storage unit for storing vector quantities is further provided.

  According to the above configuration, the three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit is a vector amount, and the storage unit stores a comparison vector amount as a comparison face feature amount corresponding to the vector amount. Is memorized.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, the data stored as the comparison facial feature quantity by the storage unit is not the so-called dense three-dimensional shape data measured, but a vector quantity. (Memory capacity is small) and data handling becomes easy.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the global area shape related to the shape of the 3D global area, which is a global area in the overall 3D shape, based on the 3D local area determined by the local area determining unit. A global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit that calculates a global three-dimensional face feature amount that is information and is a three-dimensional feature amount of the face, wherein the feature amount comparison unit performs an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated The global three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit is compared with a comparative global face feature amount prepared in advance.

  According to the above configuration, the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates the global region related to the shape of the three-dimensional global region, which is a global region in the overall three-dimensional shape, based on the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit. A global three-dimensional face feature amount that is region shape information, which is a three-dimensional feature amount of a face, is calculated, and a global three-dimensional feature amount calculation is performed by the feature amount comparison unit so as to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. The global three-dimensional face feature value calculated by the section is compared with a comparison global face feature value prepared in advance.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the global 3D face of the face, which is global information in the overall 3D shape, based on the 3D local area information determined by the local area determination unit A global three-dimensional face feature amount calculation unit that calculates a feature amount is further included, and the feature amount comparison unit calculates the global three-dimensional face calculated by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit so as to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. The feature amount is compared with a comparison global face feature amount prepared in advance.

  According to the above configuration, the global 3D feature amount calculation unit calculates the global 3D face information that is global information in the overall 3D shape based on the 3D local region information determined by the local region determination unit. The face feature value is calculated, and the feature value comparison unit calculates the global three-dimensional face feature value calculated by the global three-dimensional feature value calculation unit so as to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. The face feature value is compared.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the global information in the overall three-dimensional shape is based on the three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit. The image processing apparatus further includes a global three-dimensional face feature amount calculation unit that calculates a global three-dimensional face feature amount that is a three-dimensional feature amount of the face.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit extracts information on the deformation parameter of the standard model calculated based on the three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local region. .

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit includes a three-dimensional local standard model and a three-dimensional local region calculated based on three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local region. And distance information is extracted.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates distance information between the three-dimensional local regions calculated based on the three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local region. Extract.

  According to the above configuration, the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates the global information in the entire three-dimensional shape based on the three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit. A global three-dimensional face feature value that is a three-dimensional feature value of a face is calculated. Here, for example, the deformation parameter of the standard model calculated based on the three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local region is extracted by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit. Further, for example, distance information between the 3D local standard model calculated based on the 3D feature point information defined on the 3D local area and the 3D local area is extracted by the global 3D feature amount calculation unit. Also, for example, distance information between the three-dimensional local regions calculated based on the three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local region is extracted by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit. Then, the feature amount comparison unit compares the global three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit to perform the authentication operation for the person to be authenticated with the comparison prepared global face feature amount for comparison. The

  Further, in the authentication system according to another aspect, the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit is extracted in a line shape, and based on the extracted line-shaped three-dimensional local region, A global three-dimensional feature quantity calculation unit is further provided that calculates a global three-dimensional local face feature quantity as a shape vector of a three-dimensional global area, which is a global area.

  According to the above configuration, the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit extracts the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit in a line shape, and based on the extracted line-shaped three-dimensional local region, A global three-dimensional local face feature quantity is calculated as a shape vector of a three-dimensional global area, which is a global area in the three-dimensional shape. Then, the feature amount comparison unit compares the global three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit to perform the authentication operation for the person to be authenticated with the comparison prepared global face feature amount for comparison. The

  Therefore, according to these authentication systems, since the global three-dimensional face feature amount is used in face authentication, the authentication accuracy can be further improved. Further, the global area shape information can be compressed by a so-called data compression technique, and the data amount can be reduced. Further, since the global three-dimensional face feature amount is calculated based on the three-dimensional local region, it is possible to calculate global information unique to the three-dimensional local region. Further, the data of the three-dimensional local region is smaller than the three-dimensional shape data of the entire face, and the data amount is reduced. In particular, when the three-dimensional local region is determined based on the three-dimensional coordinates of the feature part, it is possible to select only global information between the feature points of the face part from the entire three-dimensional shape data. Become.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates center of gravity information regarding the three-dimensional local region as the global three-dimensional face feature amount.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, it is possible to calculate information on the center of gravity that is difficult to calculate from the entire three-dimensional shape data, and to calculate a global three-dimensional face feature amount that is unique to the three-dimensional local region. .

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates normal information regarding the three-dimensional local region as the global three-dimensional face feature amount.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, it is possible to calculate normal line information that is difficult to calculate from the entire three-dimensional shape data, and to calculate a global three-dimensional facial feature amount that is unique to a three-dimensional local region. Become.

  In the authentication system according to another aspect, the feature amount comparison unit is calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit according to a comparison result between the global three-dimensional face feature amount and the comparison global face feature amount. The prepared three-dimensional face feature quantity is compared with a comparison face feature quantity prepared in advance.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, for example, according to the comparison result between the global three-dimensional face feature value and the comparison global face feature value, the comparison result is the global three-dimensional face feature value and the comparison global face feature value. , The comparison between the three-dimensional face feature value and the comparison face feature value can be omitted, the authentication processing time is shortened, and authentication can be performed at higher speed.

  Further, in the authentication system according to another aspect, the feature amount comparison unit preliminarily calculates a global three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit in order to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. The comparison result of the global comparison with the prepared global facial feature value for comparison, and the three-dimensional facial feature value calculated by the three-dimensional feature value calculation unit were compared with the comparative facial feature value prepared in advance. A comprehensive comparison result obtained by integrating the local comparison results is calculated.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, since the authentication is performed based on the comprehensive comparison result obtained by integrating the global comparison result and the local comparison result, the comparison results can be interpolated with each other. As a result, the authentication can be performed with higher accuracy. Is possible.

  An authentication method according to another aspect includes a first step of acquiring information on an entire three-dimensional shape, which is an entire three-dimensional shape of the face of the person to be authenticated, and the entire three-dimensional shape information, Local region shape information relating to the shape of each three-dimensional local region from the second step of determining a plurality of three-dimensional local regions that are local regions in the three-dimensional shape and the local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region And a third step of calculating a three-dimensional face feature value, which is a three-dimensional feature value of the face, and the three-dimensional face feature value prepared in advance to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. And a fourth step of comparing the comparison face feature amount.

  According to the above configuration, in the first step, information on the entire three-dimensional shape that is the entire three-dimensional shape of the face of the person to be authenticated is acquired. In the second step, a plurality of three-dimensional local regions that are local regions in the whole three-dimensional shape are determined from the whole three-dimensional shape information. In the third step, local region shape information relating to the shape of each three-dimensional local region is obtained from local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region. Calculated. Then, in the fourth step, the three-dimensional face feature value is compared with the comparison face feature value prepared in advance to perform the authentication operation for the person to be authenticated.

  Therefore, according to this authentication method, a plurality of three-dimensional local regions are determined from the entire three-dimensional shape of the face of the person to be authenticated, and a three-dimensional facial feature amount is calculated from the local three-dimensional shape information in each three-dimensional local region. Since the authentication operation for the person to be authenticated is performed by comparing the three-dimensional face feature quantity with the comparison face feature quantity, that is, the information on the entire three-dimensional shape of the face is not used as it is. A plurality of local regions (three-dimensional local regions) are extracted from the entire three-dimensional shape, and authentication is performed based on the extracted three-dimensional local regions, resulting in partial hiding of the face. However, it is not always necessary to use the part where the concealment or the like has occurred, authentication can be performed using information of a local region other than this part, and a reduction in authentication accuracy can be reduced. Moreover, since it is not necessary to handle the information of the entire three-dimensional shape (three-dimensional data) with a large amount of data as it is, that is, it is only necessary to handle partial three-dimensional shape data of the local region, so that processing does not take time. The authentication speed can be improved.

  In the authentication method according to another aspect, the first step includes a fifth step of acquiring a two-dimensional image of the face, and a characteristic part of the face is obtained from the two-dimensional image. The method further includes a sixth step of extracting a certain feature part and a seventh step of calculating a three-dimensional coordinate of the feature part, wherein the second step is based on the three-dimensional coordinate of the feature part. This is a step of determining a three-dimensional local region.

  According to this, the first step is a step including a fifth step of acquiring a two-dimensional image of the face, and in the sixth step, a characteristic part that is a characteristic part of the face is obtained from the two-dimensional image. Extracted. In the seventh step, the three-dimensional coordinates of the characteristic part are calculated. And in the said 2nd process, it determines based on the three-dimensional coordinate of a characteristic site | part.

  Therefore, according to this authentication method, when determining the three-dimensional local region, it can be associated with the information of the two-dimensional feature part, and high-precision authentication using the feature part information together with the information of the three-dimensional local region Can be performed.

  The authentication method according to another aspect further includes an eighth step of calculating a two-dimensional face feature amount that is a two-dimensional feature amount of the face from the information on the feature portion, and the fourth step Is a step of comparing an overall face feature amount that is a combination of the two-dimensional face feature amount and the three-dimensional face feature amount with the comparison face feature amount.

  According to the above configuration, in the eighth step, a two-dimensional face feature amount that is a two-dimensional feature amount of the face is calculated from the feature part information, and in the fourth step, the two-dimensional face feature amount and the three-dimensional feature amount are calculated. The comprehensive face feature amount that is combined with the face feature amount is compared with the comparison face feature amount.

  Therefore, according to this authentication method, it is possible to perform more accurate authentication using the two-dimensional face feature value and the three-dimensional face feature value.

  In the authentication method according to another aspect, global area shape information relating to a shape of a three-dimensional global area, which is a global area in the overall three-dimensional shape, based on the three-dimensional local area determined in the second step. The method further includes a ninth step of calculating a global three-dimensional face feature amount that is a three-dimensional feature amount of the face, and the fourth step includes the nine steps of performing an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. The global three-dimensional facial feature value calculated by the above is compared with a comparative global facial feature value prepared in advance.

  According to the above configuration, the global region shape information relating to the shape of the three-dimensional global region, which is a global region in the overall three-dimensional shape, based on the three-dimensional local region determined in the second step by the ninth step. Then, a global three-dimensional face feature amount, which is a three-dimensional feature amount of the face, is calculated, and the global three-dimensional face feature calculated in the ninth step so as to perform an authentication operation for the person to be authenticated in the fourth step. The amount is compared with a prepared global facial feature amount for comparison.

  Therefore, according to this authentication system, since the global three-dimensional face feature amount is used in the face authentication, the authentication accuracy can be further improved. Further, the global area shape information can be compressed by a so-called data compression technique, and the data amount can be reduced. Further, since the global three-dimensional face feature amount is calculated based on the three-dimensional local region, it is possible to calculate global information unique to the three-dimensional local region. Further, the data of the three-dimensional local region is smaller than the three-dimensional shape data of the entire face, and the data amount is reduced. In particular, when the three-dimensional local region is determined based on the three-dimensional coordinates of the feature part, it is possible to select only global information between the feature points of the face part from the entire three-dimensional shape data. Become.

  In order to express the present invention, the present invention has been properly and fully described through the embodiments with reference to the drawings. However, those skilled in the art can easily change and / or improve the above-described embodiments. It should be recognized that this is possible. Accordingly, unless the modifications or improvements implemented by those skilled in the art are at a level that departs from the scope of the claims recited in the claims, the modifications or improvements are not covered by the claims. It is interpreted that it is included in

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the authentication system and authentication method which perform face authentication can be provided.

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A local region determination unit that determines a plurality of three-dimensional local regions that are local regions of the person to be authenticated;
3D, which is local area shape information related to the shape of each 3D local area, based on the local 3D shape information in the 3D local area determined by the local area determination unit, and is a 3D feature amount of the face A three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit for calculating a face feature amount;
A feature amount comparing unit that compares the three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculating unit with a comparison face feature amount prepared in advance to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated; A featured authentication system. A three-dimensional shape acquisition unit that acquires information on an overall three-dimensional shape that is an overall three-dimensional shape of the face of the person to be authenticated;
The local region determination unit determines a plurality of three-dimensional local regions that are local regions in the entire three-dimensional shape from the entire three-dimensional shape information acquired by the three-dimensional shape acquisition unit. The authentication system according to claim 1. The three-dimensional shape acquisition unit includes a two-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a two-dimensional image of the face,
The three-dimensional local region is determined based on a result of a feature part extraction unit that extracts a two-dimensional feature part that is a characteristic part of the face from the two-dimensional image acquired by the two-dimensional image acquisition unit. The authentication system according to claim 2. The three-dimensional shape acquisition unit further includes a three-dimensional coordinate calculation unit that calculates the three-dimensional coordinates of the feature part extracted by the feature part extraction unit,
The authentication system according to claim 3, wherein the local region determining unit determines the three-dimensional local region based on the three-dimensional coordinates of the characteristic part calculated by the three-dimensional coordinate calculating unit. The feature part extraction unit further includes a two-dimensional local region extraction unit that extracts a local region on a two-dimensional image from the extracted two-dimensional feature part,
The authentication system according to claim 3, wherein the three-dimensional local region determination unit determines the three-dimensional local region based on the two-dimensional local region calculated by the two-dimensional local region extraction unit.   The authentication system according to claim 1, wherein the local region determination unit calculates and extracts only a region corresponding to the two-dimensional local region as the three-dimensional local region.   The local region determining unit sets a partial region having a predetermined shape in a plane determined from the three-dimensional coordinates, and determines a region corresponding to the partial region in the entire three-dimensional shape as the three-dimensional local region. The authentication system according to claim 4, wherein The overall 3D shape information is face shape data composed of a plurality of 3D points,
The local region determining unit determines, as the three-dimensional local region, a region composed of three-dimensional points in which a perpendicular line that is virtually perpendicular to the plane from the three-dimensional point is included in the partial region. 8. The authentication system according to claim 7, wherein   The local region determination unit compares the entire three-dimensional shape with a reference three-dimensional partial model shape prepared in advance, and has a shape most similar to the reference three-dimensional partial model shape in the total three-dimensional shape. The authentication system according to claim 2, wherein a certain part is determined as the three-dimensional local region.   The local region determination unit includes an identical space conversion unit that converts the entire three-dimensional shape and local region information defined on a reference three-dimensional partial model shape prepared in advance into the same space. 3. The three-dimensional local region is determined by comparing an inclusion relation between the entire three-dimensional shape in the same space converted by the conversion unit and the reference three-dimensional partial model shape. The described authentication system.   The three-dimensional local region determining unit determines the three-dimensional local region by comparing the inclusion relation between the three-dimensional surface on the reference three-dimensional model and the three-dimensional surface of the entire three-dimensional shape. The authentication system according to claim 10, wherein:   The three-dimensional local region determination unit determines the three-dimensional local region by comparing the inclusion relationship between a three-dimensional surface on the reference three-dimensional model and a three-dimensional coordinate point of the entire three-dimensional shape. The authentication system according to claim 10.   The three-dimensional local region determination unit determines the three-dimensional local region by comparing the inclusion relationship between a three-dimensional coordinate point on the reference three-dimensional model and a three-dimensional surface of the entire three-dimensional shape. The authentication system according to claim 10.   3. The three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit is set as dense data, and a three-dimensional local outside region determined other than the three-dimensional local region is held as sparse data. The authentication system described in.   The said three-dimensional feature-value calculation part calculates what calculated | required local three-dimensional shape information from the said three-dimensional local area | region as said local area | region shape information, The any one of Claims 1 thru | or 14 characterized by the above-mentioned. The authentication system described in.   16. The authentication according to claim 15, wherein the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates, as the local region shape information, information obtained by converting local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region into predetermined curved surface information. system.   The three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit converts the local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region into a vector obtained by converting distance information between a defined point defined on a standard model and a corresponding point in the three-dimensional local region into a vector. The authentication system according to claim 15, wherein the authentication system calculates the area shape information.   18. The three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates a three-dimensional face feature amount including information on a relative positional relationship of each three-dimensional local region as the three-dimensional face feature amount. The authentication system according to any one of the above.   The local region determination unit determines a three-dimensional local region in the overall three-dimensional shape so that the plurality of three-dimensional local regions are arranged at positions that are symmetrical with respect to the face. The authentication system according to any one of claims 18 to 18.   The local region determination unit determines the three-dimensional local region in the overall three-dimensional shape so that the plurality of three-dimensional local regions include at least the nose and cheek portions of the face. The authentication system according to any one of claims 19 to 19. A two-dimensional feature amount calculation unit that calculates a two-dimensional face feature amount that is a two-dimensional feature amount of the face from information on the feature portion extracted by the feature portion extraction unit;
The feature amount comparison unit is a comprehensive face feature that combines the two-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the two-dimensional feature amount calculation unit and the three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit. The authentication system according to claim 4, wherein an amount is compared with the comparison face feature amount.   The said three-dimensional feature-value calculation part calculates the said three-dimensional face feature-value from the local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local area | region including a site | part other than the facial feature site | part at least. Authentication system. The feature part information for calculating the two-dimensional face feature amount is texture information,
23. The image processing apparatus according to claim 21, further comprising: a correction unit configured to perform posture variation correction that is correction regarding the posture of the face and light source variation correction that is correction regarding the direction of the light source with respect to the face with respect to the texture information. The authentication system described in. The three-dimensional shape acquisition unit
At least two photographing devices for photographing a two-dimensional image of the face;
A three-dimensional shape for calculating the whole three-dimensional shape by performing corresponding point search processing from two two-dimensional images obtained from the respective photographing devices by calculation using a phase-only correlation method and performing three-dimensional reconstruction. The authentication system according to claim 2, further comprising a calculation unit.   The three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit is a vector amount, and further includes a storage unit that stores a comparison vector amount as the comparison face feature amount corresponding to the vector amount. The authentication system according to any one of claims 1 to 24, wherein: Based on the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit, global region shape information relating to the shape of a three-dimensional global region, which is a global region in the entire three-dimensional shape, A global 3D feature quantity calculation unit that calculates a global 3D face feature quantity that is a unique feature quantity,
The feature amount comparison unit compares the global three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit with a prepared comparison global face feature amount in order to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. The authentication system according to any one of claims 1 to 14, wherein: A global three-dimensional facial feature value for calculating a global three-dimensional facial feature value of the face, which is global information in the overall three-dimensional shape, based on the information of the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit A calculation unit;
The feature amount comparison unit compares the global three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit with a prepared comparison global face feature amount in order to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. The authentication system according to any one of claims 2 to 14, wherein: Based on the three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local area determined by the local area determination unit, the face is a three-dimensional feature value of the face, which is global information in the entire three-dimensional shape. The authentication system according to claim 27, further comprising a global three-dimensional face feature amount calculation unit that calculates a global three-dimensional face feature amount. 29. The global three-dimensional feature quantity calculation unit extracts information on deformation parameters of a standard model calculated based on three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local area. Authentication system. The global three-dimensional feature quantity calculating unit extracts distance information between a three-dimensional local standard model calculated based on three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local area and a three-dimensional local area. The authentication system according to claim 28. 29. The global three-dimensional feature quantity calculation unit extracts distance information between the three-dimensional local areas calculated based on three-dimensional feature point information defined on the three-dimensional local area. The described authentication system. A three-dimensional global region that is a global region in the overall three-dimensional shape based on the extracted three-dimensional local region that is extracted in a line shape by the three-dimensional local region determined by the local region determination unit 28. The authentication system according to claim 27, further comprising a global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit that calculates a global three-dimensional local face feature amount as a shape vector of The authentication system according to claim 26, wherein the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates center of gravity information regarding the three-dimensional local region as the global three-dimensional face feature amount. 27. The authentication system according to claim 26, wherein the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit calculates normal line information regarding the three-dimensional local region as the global three-dimensional face feature amount. The feature amount comparison unit prepares in advance a 3D face feature amount calculated by the 3D feature amount calculation unit according to a comparison result between the global 3D face feature amount and the comparison global face feature amount. 27. The authentication system according to claim 26, wherein the comparison face feature amount is compared. The feature amount comparison unit includes a global three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the global three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit and a comparative global face feature amount prepared in advance to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. Comparing the global comparison result compared and the comprehensive comparison result obtained by integrating the local comparison results obtained by comparing the three-dimensional face feature amount calculated by the three-dimensional feature amount calculation unit and the comparison facial feature amount prepared in advance. The authentication system according to claim 26, wherein: A first step of acquiring information on an overall three-dimensional shape, which is an overall three-dimensional shape of the face of the person to be authenticated;
A second step of determining a plurality of three-dimensional local regions that are local regions in the whole three-dimensional shape from the whole three-dimensional shape information;
A third region that is local region shape information related to the shape of each three-dimensional local region and that is a three-dimensional facial feature amount that is a three-dimensional feature amount of the face is calculated from local three-dimensional shape information in the three-dimensional local region. And the process of
An authentication method comprising: a fourth step of comparing the three-dimensional face feature quantity with a comparison face feature quantity prepared in advance to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. The first step includes a fifth step of acquiring a two-dimensional image of the face,
A sixth step of extracting a characteristic part that is a characteristic part of the face from the two-dimensional image;
A seventh step of calculating the three-dimensional coordinates of the characteristic part,
38. The authentication method according to claim 37, wherein the second step is a step of determining the three-dimensional local region based on the three-dimensional coordinates of the feature part. And further comprising an eighth step of calculating a two-dimensional face feature value that is a two-dimensional feature value of the face from the information on the feature part,
The fourth step is a step of comparing a comprehensive face feature amount formed by combining the two-dimensional face feature amount and the three-dimensional face feature amount with the comparison face feature amount. The authentication method according to claim 38. Based on the three-dimensional local region determined in the second step, global region shape information relating to the shape of a three-dimensional global region, which is a global region in the entire three-dimensional shape, A ninth step of calculating a global three-dimensional facial feature quantity that is a feature quantity;
The fourth step is characterized in that the global three-dimensional facial feature amount calculated in the ninth step is compared with a preliminarily prepared global facial feature amount for comparison in order to perform an authentication operation on the person to be authenticated. The authentication method according to claim 37.

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