Patent ID: 7418112
Filing Date: 2008-08-26
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. The pedestrian detection apparatus for recognizing a pedestrian from an input image picked up by image pick-up means based on a pattern matching between the input image and model images of the pedestrian, comprising: prospective pedestrian recognizing means for recognizing a whole-body region surrounding a whole-body model image and a prospective part region surrounding a part model image of the whole body from the input image based on a pattern matching using the whole-body model image and the part model image of the pedestrian; and pedestrian recognizing means for determining whether or not a recognized prospective part region is a part of the pedestrian if a prospective part region exists in the whole-body region recognized by the prospective pedestrian recognizing means, wherein the part model image is a head model image, and the pedestrian recognizing means determines the prospective part region at the highest position to be a head if a plurality of prospective part regions exist in the whole-body region.