1. A method for detecting one or more objects belonging to the same object class comprising the steps of: a). receiving a video sequence comprised of a plurality of image frames; b). applying one or more classifiers to detect components of objects in an image frame in the video sequence; c). computing a confidence score based in part on the response from the one or more component detectors; d). repeating steps b). and c). to detect components of objects belonging to the same object class in additional images frames in the video sequence; and e). accumulating confidence scores from the component detectors to determine if an object is detected.