BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM

摘要

The present invention is characterized by comprising: an image acquisition unit 41 that acquires an image 53 including the faces of one or more persons; an extraction unit 42 that specifies, in the acquired image 53, a region including the face of a person 12a first in a waiting line formed by the one or more persons, and extracts a feature information set 14 about the face of the first person included in the specified region; a selection unit 43 that selects a group G consisting of persons similar to the first person 12a from among a plurality of persons 12 by comparing the extracted feature information set 14 with feature information sets 14 stored in a storage unit 5, the storage unit 5 storing the feature information sets 14 indicating the face features of the plurality of persons 12 and storing biological information sets 13 about the respective persons 12; a biological information acquisition unit 51 that acquires a biological information set 13 about the first person 12a; and an identification unit 52 that identifies the first person 12a by comparing the biological information sets 13 about the respective persons included in the group G among the biological information sets 13 stored in the storage unit 5 with the acquired biological information set 13 about the first person 12a.