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# HumanObservation

An object that represents a person that the request detects.

```
struct HumanObservation
```

## Topics

### Creating an observation

[`init(VNHumanObservation)`](/documentation/Vision/HumanObservation/init(_:))

Creates a human observation.

[`init(boundingBox: NormalizedRect, revision: DetectHumanRectanglesRequest.Revision?)`](/documentation/Vision/HumanObservation/init(boundingBox:revision:))

### Inspecting an observation

[`enum RequestDescriptor`](/documentation/Vision/RequestDescriptor)

A type that describes the request and revision combination.

[`let isUpperBodyOnly: Bool`](/documentation/Vision/HumanObservation/isUpperBodyOnly)

A Boolean value that indicates whether the observation represents an upper-body or full-body rectangle.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Decodable`](/documentation/Swift/Decodable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`Encodable`](/documentation/Swift/Encodable)

[`VisionObservation`](/documentation/Vision/VisionObservation)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`BoundingBoxProviding`](/documentation/Vision/BoundingBoxProviding)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`Copyable`](/documentation/Swift/Copyable)

[`Escapable`](/documentation/Swift/Escapable)

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