The invention discloses a pedestrian detection method based on deep learning multi-network soft fusion, and relates to the technical field of image processing, target detection and deep learning. Themethod comprises the following steps: S1, inputting a to-be-processed image; S2, inputting the to-be-processed image into a YOLO v3 pedestrian candidate region generator taking Darknet-53 as a basic network, and generating a pedestrian candidate region; S3, inputting the to-be-processed image into a front-end prediction module, and outputting C feature maps; s4, inputting the C feature maps into asemantic segmentation system, and outputting C feature maps containing context information; s5, fusing a result of the semantic segmentation system with a pedestrian candidate result generated by a pedestrian candidate region generator; s6: outputting a detection image. According to the method, the pedestrian candidate region generator and the semantic segmentation system are subjected to parallel soft fusion, pedestrians in various challenge scenes are efficiently detected, and meanwhile, the small target detection capability is improved.