A device for object recognition of an input image includes: a patch selector configured to subdivide the input image into a plurality of zones and to define a plurality of patches for the zones; a voting maps generator configured to generate a set of voting maps for each zone and for each patch, and to binarize the generated set of voting maps; a voting maps combinator configured to combine the binarized set of voting maps; and a supposition generator configured to generate and refine a supposition out of or from the combined, binarized set of voting maps.