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Pedestrian detection apparatus

  • US 7,418,112 B2
  • Filed: 01/07/2005
  • Issued: 08/26/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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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.

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