Feature Change Image Creation Method, Feature Change Image Creation Device, and Feature Change Image Creation Program
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1. A feature changed image generating method for generating a new image from an input image, comprising:
- providing a database in which a plurality of data, which are relating to a plurality of images respectively, are classified into a plurality of categories;
determining an image which is most similar to said input image as a selected image based on a data belonging to a specified category specified from said plurality of categories; and
merging said selected image and said input image.
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Abstract
A technique for applying a feature of a side attribute to an original image while keeping a principal feature. An image accumulating unit stores images classified into categories per the age or sex. A merging unit selects a category in accordance with an input category. A matching unit matches the input image and each of images included in the selected category with each other, and selects the image having highest degree of similarity. The merging unit merges the input image and the selected image by carrying out the weighted average and so on, and generates and outputs a merged image.
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1. A feature changed image generating method for generating a new image from an input image, comprising:
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providing a database in which a plurality of data, which are relating to a plurality of images respectively, are classified into a plurality of categories; determining an image which is most similar to said input image as a selected image based on a data belonging to a specified category specified from said plurality of categories; and merging said selected image and said input image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A feature change applying method for gradually applying a feature change to an input image, comprising:
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providing a database in which constituent components of a plurality of images are classified into a plurality of categories, wherein each of said plurality of categories includes constituent components of a plurality of images which are gradual variations of an identical object on an attribute; selecting a selected combination of said constituent components by which an image which is most similar to said input image is obtained, by using said constituent components belonging to a category included in said plurality of categories and corresponding to an attribute of said input image; and converting component coefficients corresponding to said selected combination into converted coefficients which are component coefficients corresponding to said specified category. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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11. A feature changed image generating apparatus for generating a new image from an input image, comprising:
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a storing unit configured to store a plurality of data which are relating to a plurality of images respectively and classified into a plurality of categories; an image determining unit configured to determine an image which is most similar to said input image as a selected image based on a data belonging to a specified category specified from said plurality of categories; and a merging unit configured to merge said selected image and said input image. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A feature change applying apparatus for gradually applying a feature change to an input image, comprising:
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a storing unit in which constituent components of a plurality of images are classified into a plurality of categories; and a component coefficient converting unit, wherein each of said plurality of categories includes constituent components of a plurality of images which are gradual variations of an identical object on an attribute, and said component coefficient converting unit selects a selected combination of said constituent components by which an image which is most similar to said input image is obtained, by using said constituent components belonging to a category included in said plurality of categories and corresponding to an attribute of said input image, and converts component coefficients corresponding to said selected combination into converted coefficients which are component coefficients corresponding into said specified category. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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21. A feature changed image generating program for generating a new image from an input image executed by a computer, comprising a storing device storing a plurality of data which are relating to a plurality of images respectively and classified into a plurality of categories, and
the feature changed image generating program causes the computer to execute: -
determining an image which is most similar to said input image as a selected image based on a data belonging to a specified category specified from said plurality of categories; and merging said selected image and said input image. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A feature change applying program for gradually applying a feature change to an input image executed by a computer,
wherein the computer has a storing device in which constituent components of a plurality of images are classified into a plurality of categories, and each of said plurality of categories includes constituent components of a plurality of images which are gradual variations of an identical object on an attribute, and the feature change applying program causes the computer to execute: -
selecting a selected combination of said constituent components by which an image which is most similar to said input image is obtained, by using said constituent components belonging to a category included in said plurality of categories and corresponding to an attribute of said input image; and converting component coefficients corresponding to said selected combination into converted coefficients which are component coefficients corresponding to said specified category.
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