MORPHING IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM USING POLYGON REDUCTION PROCESSING

A first image before deformation and a second image after deformation are input and formed into polygon models represented with a polygon mesh by a polygon model generation processing part. Polygon reduction processing is performed by a low progression level polygon model generation processing part to generate low progression level polygon models having a reduced number of polygons and metadata containing the reduction process of the number of polygons. A low progression level polygon model morphing processing part specifies corresponding vertices between the low progression level polygon models, and then they are formed into intermediate low progression level polygon models by interpolation. Intermediate images are generated by reproducing processing to the polygon model using the metadata by an intermediate image generation processing part and texture mapping.