The invention discloses an HOG and LBPH feature fused detection method for a copy of an identity card. The method comprises that a lot of identity card and non identity card pictures are selected as positive and negative samples of a training sample set, HOG and LBPH features are extracted from the training sample set, a SVM is trained to obtain first and second classifiers, the first classifier is used to carry out target detection on a test image, and the LBPH feature of a target detection result is obtained; and the second classifier makes determination according to the LBPH feature of thetarget detection result, and targets whose determination results are true are reserved. The HOG classifier is used for detection at first, the LBPH classifier is used to re-detect HOG detection results, the method is simple, rapid and efficient, and the detection accuracy is high.