The invention discloses a real-time constructor safety helmet detection method based on 
pedestrian detection. According to the method, firstly, large-scale marked samples are utilized to carry out multi-time iteration training for an 
Adaboost classifier extracted on the basis of ACF characteristics; secondly, the trained classifier is utilized to carry out 
pedestrian detection on a 
video sequence, and the precise position and the quantity of targets are determined; thirdly, locus analysis on a detection result is carried out, whether the detection result is wrong is determined according to the locus information, if a 
score of the detection result is not high, dump 
processing is carried out, the detection result with high 
score is tracked, a characteristic that a 
human head is at a top portion of the detection result is utilized, the portion of a safety helmet is locked, through 
color space conversion, and safety helmet detection is finally realized through utilizing a pixel ratio for determination according to the separation color 
channel statistics pixel information. The method is advantaged in that good robustness is realized for multiple occasions, and a pixel point statistics detection method based on HSV space has quite good effects for special color safety helmets.