APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR OBJECT DETECTION

An apparatus for object detection includes an object detection unit (31) configured to detect an object around a vehicle (10) by inputting a sensor signal into a classifier. The sensor signal is obtained by at least one sensor (2, 3) for sensing the situation around the vehicle (10), and the sensor (2, 3) is mounted on the vehicle (10). The apparatus further includes a computation control unit (32) configured to set the degree of omission of computation so that at least part of computation on the sensor signal by the classifier will be omitted when the speed of the vehicle (10) is not greater than a predetermined speed threshold and the situation around the vehicle (10) does not correspond to any of predetermined exceptional situations.