INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND OBSERVATION SYSTEM

There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of images of a fertile ovum captured in time series; a recognizing unit including a probability image generating unit configured to generate, for each image of the fertile ovum, a probability image, wherein each position in the probability image represents the probability that at least part of the fertile ovum is present at the corresponding position in the image of the fertile ovum; and a feature amount calculating unit configured to calculate time-series transformation of the fertile ovum from the probability images over the time series, and calculate a feature amount of the fertile ovum based on the transformation.