INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Japanese patent application No. 2018-244573, filed on Dec. 27, 2018, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a non-transitory storage medium.

BACKGROUND ART

In recent years, an apparatus that identifies a person by matching an image of the person captured by a security camera or the like with an image of a registrant registered in a database in advance is widely used due to development of image recognition techniques. In the nature of operation, however, there is a case where a user has to visually check a matching result. Japanese Utility Model No. 3204175 discloses an image matching apparatus that changes a face orientation and a size in a three-dimensional image of a registrant stored in a storage device in advance and thereby displays a composite image in which a projection image obtained by projecting the three-dimensional image on a plane and a two-dimensional capturing image of a person captured by a security camera or the like are superimposed. A user can easily check whether or not a person in a capturing image is the same person as a registrant by referencing the composite image.

SUMMARY

When the apparatus generates a composite image from two images, an apparatus disclosed in Japanese Utility Model No. 3204175 only changes the orientation and the size of one of the images. Thus, when there is a change due to the presence or absence of glasses, a change due to the presence or absence of hair or beard, a change in a hair style, and a change in the appearance due to elapsed time, or the like between two images, a user is unable to efficiently proceed with a check operation based on a composite image.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problem and intends to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that can increase the efficiency of a check operation performed by a user in image matching of a person.

According to an example aspect of the present invention, provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires a two-dimensional image of a person and a three-dimensional registered image of a registrant; and a generation unit that, when superimposing the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional registered image to generate a composite image, performs an editing process for changing an appearance of the person or the registrant for at least one of the two-dimensional image, the three-dimensional registered image, and the composite image.

According to another example aspect of the present invention, provided is an information processing method including: acquiring a two-dimensional image of a person and a three-dimensional registered image of a registrant; and when superimposing the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional registered image to generate a composite image, performing an editing process for changing an appearance of the person or the registrant for at least one of the two-dimensional image, the three-dimensional registered image, and the composite image.

According to yet another example aspect of the present invention, provided is a non-transitory storage medium in which a program is stored, the program that causes a computer to perform: acquiring a two-dimensional image of a person and a three-dimensional registered image of a registrant; and when superimposing the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional registered image to generate a composite image, performing an editing process for changing an appearance of the person or the registrant for at least one of the two-dimensional image, the three-dimensional registered image, and the composite image.

According to the present invention, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a non-transitory storage medium that can increase the efficiency of a check operation performed by a user in image matching of a person are provided.

