Object detection method and apparatus, including an image-pickup unit
picking up the image of a target region, a first recording device
accumulating, as a reference image, an image signal from the image-pickup
unit, a second recording device storing a table which defines
surveillance information on the image signal, an object detection
processing unit detecting a target object from the image signal and the
reference image, a memory table storing a processing result from the
processing unit, and a display unit. The image signal from the
image-pickup unit is saved based on the table of the second recording
device, and the processing result in the memory table is displayed on the
display unit. The surveillance information in the table of the second
recording device is modified based on the display of the processing
result obtained by the object detection processing unit.