By comparing the captured background image and the current image when you are not the detected present in the surveillance area, in the object detecting apparatus for detecting the presence or absence of the detection target in the monitor area, background contours information extracting means on the background image extract the contour information of what is shining.
By comparing the captured background image and the current image when you are not the detected present in the surveillance area, in the object detecting apparatus for detecting the presence or absence of the detection target in the monitor area, background contour information extracting means on the background image extract the contour information of what is shining. Object detecting means performs the extraction of the contour information, except for the outline of the background image from the current image. The object detecting means detects the presence or absence of the detection target in the monitor region based on whether or not to extract the contour line information from the current image.