Fast method of object detection by statistical template matching

摘要

A method of detecting an object in an image comprises comparing a template with a region of an image and determining a similarity measure, wherein the similarity measure is determined using a statistical measure. The template comprises a number of regions corresponding to parts of the object and their spatial relations. The variance of the pixels within the total template is set in relation to the variances of the pixels in all individual regions, to provide a similarity measure.