Patent attributes
An apparatus for human detection includes a processor configured to detect human regions from an image, integrate two or more human regions overlapping more than a predetermined degree into a single integrated human region among the detected human regions, input the integrated human region into a skeleton detector to determine a skeleton of an undetermined and foremost person out of one or more persons included in the integrated human region, mask a region representing the detected foremost person in the integrated human region based on the skeleton of the foremost person to modify the integrated human region, repeat detection of a skeleton and masking of a region representing a person in the modified integrated human region until a human skeleton is no longer detected, and determine the number of skeletons detected from the integrated human region as the number of persons represented in the integrated human region.
