A station device in a biometric pre-identification system uses identity to perform one or more actions. Identities are determined (such as via a backend) using biometric information. A biometric pre-identification device obtains biometric information and/or a digital representation thereof from a person approaching the station device. The biometric pre-identification device transmits such to the station device, facilitating the station to begin and/or perform various actions. The station device begins or performs the actions using the identity determined based on the biometric information before the person arrives at the station device.

According to an aspect of the disclosure, an information processing apparatus comprising a communication circuit and a control circuit is provided. The control circuit transmits reduced image data of captured image data, to a first external apparatus through the communication circuit; receives, from the first external apparatus, a result of evaluation processing applied to the reduced image data; on the basis of the result of the evaluation processing, determines whether to apply image processing to the captured image data corresponding to the reduced image data, by a second external apparatus; transmits the captured image data that is determined to be applied the image processing, to the second external apparatus through the communication circuit; and receives, from the second external apparatus, a result of the image processing applied to the captured image data.

An image processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive an addition instruction for adding a page to album data including a plurality of pages; an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a user selection image as an image to be arranged in the page to be added in response to the addition instruction, the user selection image being selected by a user; a first analysis information obtaining unit configured to obtain analysis information of the user selection image; and a selecting unit configured to select an image to be arranged in the added page other than the user selection image, based on the analysis information of the user selection image.

An example method may include receiving, at a computing device, a digital image associated with a particular media content program, the digital image containing one or more faces of particular people associated with the particular media content program. A computer-implemented face recognition program together with a set of computational models associated with the particular media content program may be applied to the digital image to recognize one or more of the particular people in the digital image, together with respective geometric coordinates for each of the one or more detected faces. At least a subset of the set of the computational models may be associated with a respective one of the particular people. The digital image together may be stored in non-transitory computer-readable memory, together with information assigning respective identities of the recognized particular people, and associating with each respective assigned identity geometric coordinates in the digital image.

A system and method for concealing and revealing a human face in media objects may include obtaining a first media object capturing an image of the face; employing a first unit to: extract, from the first media object, a set of features representing the face, and generate a second media object, by embedding the extracted features in an anonymized media object; and employing a second unit to recognize the face based on the second media object.

A method and system using face tracking and object tracking is disclosed. The method and system use face tracking, location, and/or recognition to enhance object tracking, and use object tracking and/or location to enhance face tracking.

A collation system of the present invention includes an imaging means for acquiring a captured image of a pre-passage side area with respect to a gate, a collation means for performing a collation process between a previously registered target and a target in the captured image, and a determination means for determining propriety of passage of the target with respect to the gate, on the basis of a result of the collation process. The collation means initiates the collation process on the basis of a condition, set to each area of the captured image, for the target located in the area.

A computer-implemented method allows a wait time to be determined automatically for a queue area. The queue is part of an environment and includes defined entrance and exit areas. A series of images showing the environment are received over time. A wait time associated with the queue area is determined by detecting a location of a object corresponding to a person in a first one of the images; associating the object with an identifier uniquely identifying the object in the first one of the images matching objects in later images; and determining the wait time based on times associated with an image in which an object associated with the identifier enters the queue area through the defined entrance area and later one of the images in which an object associated with the identifier exits the queue area through the defined exit area. An indication of the wait time is output.

A self-service terminal (100) and a method (300, 600) for operating a self-service terminal are disclosed, wherein the self-service terminal (100) comprises: an imaging device (102), configured for providing at least one digital image (104); at least one processor (110), configured for: determining whether the at least one digital image (104) comprises a face of a person; if the at least one digital image (104) comprises the face of the person, cutting out from the at least one digital image (104) an image region which comprises the face of the person; and a storage device (108), configured for storing the image region.

An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a determining unit, and a notifying unit. The acquiring unit acquires a facial image of a first visitor that has visited a predetermined place to be visited, and attribute information indicating an attribute of the first visitor at a time of visit. The determining unit determines when a second visitor visits the predetermined place to be visited, whether a same person as the second visitor is included among the first visitors by verification between a facial image of the first and second visitor. The notifying unit notifies, when attribute information corresponding to the first visitor that has been determined as the same person as the second visitor indicates a specific attribute, that a subject person, an attribute of which is the specific attribute at least at the time of visit has visited again as the second visitor.