Face recognition machine and face recognition method

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the work load on the face authentication machine side when the generation of face feature amount data or the update for face matching processing occurs. SOLUTION: A face authentication device 1 and a face matching server 6 are connected via a network, and in the face authentication device, a storage unit stores setting information about a face matching inquiry method and matching group information about a face matching inquiry destination. In the authentication, the subject is photographed by the camera 11 at the time of authentication, the face matching server to be the inquiry destination of the face matching is identified based on the setting information and the matching group information regarding the face matching inquiry method, and the face is identified. A process of adding face image data of the target person to the collation server to make a face collation inquiry, and a process of generating face feature amount data from the face image data and a process of collating face feature amount data in the face collation server. Then, the collation result of the subject is acquired from the face collation server, and the collation result of the subject is output from the display 12. [Selection diagram] Figure 1