Computer Vision - Human Detection in Video

Question

I need to detect a human in a video in realtime. I guess its not much different from detecting a human in a static image (except that the video image is usually much lower resolution). Can you guys point me in some direction? I don't have no experience in the computer vision field, so I any link, article, video that could give me a introduction would be useful. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

One of the most famous methods for human detection is the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HoG) detector. This has been implemented in the OpenCV library and should be a good starting point.