The present invention relates to methods and systems for an illuminant compensation. In particular, these methods and systems include a method for operations on an image, for example, an image of a human face. In the described methods and systems, it is determined for each pixel in the image whether it is part of the face region. A surface fitting is then determined based on only the pixels that are determined to be part of the face region. Also, described are methods and systems for image normalization wherein the standard deviation and average for the gray levels of the pixels are determined and then used to normalize the image so that the gray level for each of the pixels falls between a particular range.
Provided are a face recognition apparatus and method in which a facial image is divided into facial component images. The apparatus includes a component division unit that divides an input facial image into a plurality of facial component images; a face descriptor generating unit that generates face descriptors using a transform matrix corresponding to the respective facial component images, the face descriptors being characteristic vectors; a registered face descriptor database (DB) that stores registered face descriptors; and an authentication unit that authenticates the input facial image by comparing face descriptors for the input facial image input from the face descriptor generating unit with the registered face descriptors and providing predetermined weights corresponding to each facial component to the comparison results of each facial component.
The present invention teaches an amusement machine having the abilities of automatically finding the most likely match of a user facial image to a prestored database of facial images such as celebrity images and in estimating the degree of attractiveness of the user facial image. The amusement machine has a camera 11 for taking a facial image of the user, automatically compares it to said prestored database of facial images, and assigns the attractiveness score. The results are then displayed to the user on a computer screen 13.
