APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING FEATURE POINTS FOR EACH OBJECT, METHOD FOR SEPARATING FEATURE POINTS FOR EACH OBJECT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

An object-specific keypoint separation apparatus includes: an inference execution unit configured to receive a captured image capturing an object as an input and use a pre-trained model that has been trained in order to output a plurality of first maps and a plurality of second maps generated from the input captured image to output the plurality of first maps and the plurality of second maps, the plurality of first maps storing a vector describing a connection relationship of a keypoint of the object only around the keypoint, and the plurality of second maps representing a heat map configured to have a peak at coordinates at which the keypoint of the object appears; a map correction unit configured to correct the plurality of second maps using the plurality of first maps and the plurality of second maps; an upsampling unit configured to upsample the plurality of first maps; and an object-specific keypoint separation unit configured to separate keypoints for each object based on the plurality of upsampled first maps and the plurality of corrected second maps.