Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: an eye region detecting unit which detects an eye region of an object in an image; a high luminance pixel detecting unit which detects a high luminance pixel with a higher luminance than a predetermined luminance based on pixels in the eye region detected by the eye region detecting unit; a light source color estimating unit which estimates information of a light source color from the high luminance pixel detected by the high luminance pixel detecting unit; a white balance adjusting amount calculating unit which calculates a white balance adjusting amount based on the information of the light source color estimated by the light source color estimating unit; and an image processing unit which adjusts a white balance of at least a region in the image by using the white balance adjusting amount calculated by the white balance adjusting amount calculating unit.