Child seat detection for seat occupancy classification system

Child seat detection for a seat occupancy classification system. A computerized method for child seat detection for a seat occupancy classification system in a vehicle is presented. The method includes: receiving a current image showing an area of a vehicle seat currently taken inside a vehicle; and acquiring one or more reference images, where at least one reference image is a previously stored first reference image of the unoccupied vehicle seat. The method further includes determining a seat state of the vehicle seat by processing the current image and the one or more reference images with a pre-trained machine learning classification network; and determining, based on an output from the machine learning classification network, a seat state indicating at least whether the vehicle seat in the current image includes the installed child seat. Finally, the method forwards the seat status to a seat occupancy classification system. The invention further provides a corresponding system, a vehicle and a computer r