Patent attributes
Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and apparatus for detecting a body. A particular embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring a set of candidate body image region in a target image; for a candidate body image region in the set of candidate body image region: acquiring position information and confidences of candidate body key points in the candidate body image region; determining the candidate body key points within a body contour according to body contour information in the candidate body image region and the acquired position information; and determining a confidence score of the candidate body image region according to a sum of the confidences of the candidate body key points within the body contour; and determining a body image region from the set of candidate body image regions according to the confidence scores of the candidate body image regions in set of the candidate body image regions.
