In-vehicle occupant image pickup apparatus

A digitized image signal-outputting infrared/near-infrared camera (1A) equipped in an image pickup unit (1) located in a blind spot for an occupant of an automobile behind a hood (2A) of a dashboard (2) shoots a full face of the occupant from a direction directly opposite thereto with the help of reflection in a cold filter (4) installed in an instrument panel (3). The face of the occupant can precisely be shot from the direction directly opposite thereto without requiring any change in position of indicating meters (5) in the instrument panel (3).