The invention provides a personnel detection method and a device suitable for big data, equipment and a medium, and the method comprises the steps: S1, taking one frame from each continuous M frames in an image sequence of a video, and obtaining a sampling video sequence; S2, extracting continuous N frames from the sampled video sequence each time, and inputting the N frames into a pre-classifierto obtain a preliminary to-be-detected human head window; S3, inputting the preliminary to-be-detected human head window into the main classifier, and further excluding the human head-free window to obtain a secondary to-be-detected human head window; and S4, inputting the secondary to-be-detected human head window into the clustering analyzer, mutually correcting the detection results of each frame, reducing errors, and generating a high-precision human head detection result. According to the method, head detection in various scenes with many people is realized based on the multi-stage cascaded head classifier, static features, dynamic features and inter-frame correction are fused, and the technical problem that good head detection effect is difficult to obtain due to interference of complex backgrounds and insufficient detection precision in actual scenes is solved.