“…Detecting people in images is a problem with a long history [37,13,35,27,16,41,23,5]; in the past two years there has been a surge of interest in pedestrian detection [6,9,11,18,20,21,25,30,32,33,36,38,42]. Accurate pedestrian detection would have immediate and far reaching impact to applications such as surveillance, robotics, assistive technology for the visually impaired, content based indexing (e.g.…”