The invention discloses a real-time robust far infrared vehicle-mounted pedestrian detection method. The method comprises the steps of catching a potential pedestrian pre-selection area in an input image through a pixel gradient vertical projection, searching an interest area in the pedestrian pre-selection area through a local threshold method and morphological post-processing techniques, extracting a multi-stage entropy weighing gradient direction histogram for feature description of the interest area, inputting the histogram to a support vector machine pedestrian classifier for online judgment of the interest area, achieving pedestrian detection through multi-frame verification and screening of judgment results of the pedestrian classifier, dividing training sample space according to sample height distribution, building a classification frame of a three-branch structure, and collecting difficult samples and a training pedestrian classifier in an iteration mode with combination of a bootstrap method and an advanced termination method. According to the real-time robust far infrared vehicle-mounted pedestrian detection method, not only is accuracy of pedestrian detection improved, but also a false alarm rate is reduced, input image processing speed and generalization capacity of the classifier are improved, and provided is an effective night vehicle-mounted pedestrian-assisted early warning method.