To highly reliably record a position at which a face newly appears with a small processing load.

An image processing apparatus includes a means for detecting a face from a moving images, a tracking means for tracking the face of a main object by tracking conditions including other than the position and size thereof, a holding means (S416) for holding the information of the position and size of the detected face, a first determination means (S411) for determining whether the face matches with the information of the position or the size held in the holding means when any face other than that of the main object is newly detected, and a recording control means (S407, S419) for executing control so as to record a face index specifying a frame included in a period during which it is determined that the new face is detected. The recording control means does not record the face index (S418) for a period of detecting the face for which the face index is already recorded in the other period of face detection among the faces determined as matching by the first determination means.

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