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

摘要

It is characterized by including an image acquisition unit 41 that acquires an image 53 that includes a face of one or more persons, an extraction unit 42 that specifies a region that a face of a head person 12a of a waiting line in which the one or more persons line up appears from the acquired image 53 and extracts feature 14 of the face of the head person included in the specified region, a selection unit 43 that, by collating the extracted feature 14 with feature 14 stored in a storage unit 5 that stores the feature 14 that indicates facial characteristics of a plurality of persons 12 and biometric information 13 of each of the persons 12, selects a group G of persons similar to the head person 12a among the plurality of persons 12, a biometric information acquisition unit 51 that acquires the biometric information 13 of the head person 12a, and an authentication unit 52 that authenticates the head person 12a by collating the biometric information 13 of each person included in the group G among the biometric information 13 stored in the storage unit 5 with the acquired biometric information 13 of the head person 12a.