COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH DATABASE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONSTRUCTING DATABASE, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH DATABASE RETRIEVAL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RETRIEVING DATABASE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make efficiently and appropriately retrievable a face image having a characteristic desired by a user from a face image database.;SOLUTION: A database retrieving device 200 includes an example image presenting part 201 for presenting an example image used for retrieval, a retrieval attribute designating part 203 for designating an attribute (character) desired to be retrieved, a characteristic vector extracting part 205 for extracting a characteristics vector about an attribute (character) designated from the presented example image, a similarity calculating part 207 for calculating the similarity between the extracted characteristics vector and a corresponding characteristic vector registered in the face image database 1000, a displaying part 209 for displaying the similarity being calculation results together with a face image, and the face image database 1000 in which the image face and the characteristic vector are registered with the face image made to correspond to the characteristic vector.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO