Patent ID: 8131011

Claim:
A human detection system for detecting a plurality of humans in an image of a scene, the system comprising: a full body detector configured to generate a full body detection response for each human by scanning the image of the scene to detect the full body of each human; a plurality of part detectors, each part detector configured to generate a part detection response for each human by scanning the image of the scene to detect an associated body part of each human; and a combined detector configured to combine all the full body detection responses with all the part detection responses, to generate a combined detection response; wherein the full body detection response and the part detection response is generated without referring to or in reference to any other image; wherein the full-body detector and the part detectors are further configured to account for partial occlusion of at least one of the humans in the image; and wherein the full-body detector and the part detectors are further configured to generate the full body and part detection responses in a part-based representation that models each one of the humans as an assembly of parts, the assembly of parts including a full body part plus all the associated body parts of that human.