Device and method for detecting object and device and method for group learning

摘要

An object detecting device 1 comprises a scaling section 3 for generating scaled images by scaling down a gradation image input from an image output section 2 , a scanning section 4 for sequentially manipulating the scaled images and cutting out window images from them and a discriminator 5 for judging if each window image is an object or not. The discriminator 5 includes a plurality of weak discriminators that are learnt in a group by boosting and an adder for making a weighted majority decision from the outputs of the weak discriminators. Each of the weak discriminators outputs an estimate telling the likelihood of a window image to be an object or not by using the difference of the luminance values of two pixels. The discriminator 5 suspends the operation of computing estimates for a window image that is judged to be a non-object, using a threshold value that is learnt in advance.