IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

The at least one processor detects a face candidate area from an image, using a face detector, acquires a position of a facial organ from an image of the face candidate area, using a facial organ detector, generates a transformed image obtained by transforming the image of the face candidate area based on the position of the facial organ, and controls whether or not to output the image of the face candidate area based on a result of a face detection process performed on the transformed image.