Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the real-time object recognition of target objects, which includes the identification of target objects within images. In particular, images are received from an imaging device and analyzed by a workstation. The workstation applies one or more filters to the received images to generate one or more filtered images. One or more windows (e.g., sub-regions, sub-rectangles, etc.) of the filtered images are then analyzed in order to obtain histogram features. The workstation obtains a representation of these histogram features, which may be a simplified version or reduced dimension of the histogram features. The workstation then applies classifiers to the representation of the histogram features to recognize any objects in the received images.