diff --git a/modules/objdetect/include/opencv2/objdetect/objdetect.hpp b/modules/objdetect/include/opencv2/objdetect/objdetect.hpp
index 5e2409378..e97828a62 100644
--- a/modules/objdetect/include/opencv2/objdetect/objdetect.hpp
+++ b/modules/objdetect/include/opencv2/objdetect/objdetect.hpp
@@ -286,6 +286,45 @@ namespace cv
 	
 ///////////////////////////// Object Detection ////////////////////////////
 
+/*
+ * This is a class wrapping up the structure CvLatentSvmDetector and functions working with it.
+ * The class goals are:
+ * 1) provide c++ interface;
+ * 2) make it possible to load and detect more than one class (model) unlike CvLatentSvmDetector.
+ */
+class CV_EXPORTS_W LatentSvmDetector
+{
+public:
+    struct CV_EXPORTS_W ObjectDetection
+    {
+        ObjectDetection();
+        ObjectDetection( const Rect& rect, float score, int classID=-1 );
+        Rect rect;
+        float score;
+        int classID;
+    };
+
+    CV_WRAP LatentSvmDetector();
+    CV_WRAP LatentSvmDetector( const vector<string>& filenames, const vector<string>& classNames=vector<string>() );
+    virtual ~LatentSvmDetector();
+
+    CV_WRAP virtual void clear();
+    CV_WRAP virtual bool empty() const;
+    CV_WRAP bool load( const vector<string>& filenames, const vector<string>& classNames=vector<string>() );
+
+    CV_WRAP virtual void detect( const Mat& image,
+                                 vector<ObjectDetection>& objectDetections,
+                                 float overlapThreshold=0.5f,
+                                 int numThreads=-1 );
+
+    const vector<string>& getClassNames() const;
+    size_t getClassCount() const;
+
+private:
+    vector<CvLatentSvmDetector*> detectors;
+    vector<string> classNames;
+};
+
 CV_EXPORTS void groupRectangles(CV_OUT CV_IN_OUT vector<Rect>& rectList, int groupThreshold, double eps=0.2);
 CV_EXPORTS_W void groupRectangles(CV_OUT CV_IN_OUT vector<Rect>& rectList, CV_OUT vector<int>& weights, int groupThreshold, double eps=0.2);
 CV_EXPORTS void groupRectangles( vector<Rect>& rectList, int groupThreshold, double eps, vector<int>* weights, vector<double>* levelWeights );
diff --git a/modules/objdetect/src/latentsvmdetector.cpp b/modules/objdetect/src/latentsvmdetector.cpp
index 5b39e45c9..d8e8f7a4a 100644
--- a/modules/objdetect/src/latentsvmdetector.cpp
+++ b/modules/objdetect/src/latentsvmdetector.cpp
@@ -141,3 +141,122 @@ CvSeq* cvLatentSvmDetectObjects(IplImage* image,
 
 	return result_seq;
 }
+
+namespace cv
+{
+LatentSvmDetector::ObjectDetection::ObjectDetection() : score(0.f), classID(-1)
+{}
+
+LatentSvmDetector::ObjectDetection::ObjectDetection( const Rect& _rect, float _score, int _classID ) :
+    rect(_rect), score(_score), classID(_classID)
+{}
+
+LatentSvmDetector::LatentSvmDetector()
+{}
+
+LatentSvmDetector::LatentSvmDetector( const vector<string>& filenames, const vector<string>& _classNames )
+{
+    load( filenames, _classNames );
+}
+
+LatentSvmDetector::~LatentSvmDetector()
+{
+    clear();
+}
+
+void LatentSvmDetector::clear()
+{
+    for( size_t i = 0; i < detectors.size(); i++ )
+        cvReleaseLatentSvmDetector( &detectors[i] );
+    detectors.clear();
+}
+
+bool LatentSvmDetector::empty() const
+{
+    return detectors.empty();
+}
+
+const vector<string>& LatentSvmDetector::getClassNames() const
+{
+    return classNames;
+}
+
+size_t LatentSvmDetector::getClassCount() const
+{
+    return classNames.size();
+}
+
+string extractModelName( const string& filename )
+{
+    size_t startPos = filename.rfind('/');
+    if( startPos == string::npos )
+        startPos = filename.rfind('\\');
+
+    if( startPos == string::npos )
+        startPos = 0;
+    else
+        startPos++;
+
+    const int extentionSize = 4; //.xml
+
+    int substrLength = filename.size() - startPos - extentionSize;
+
+    return filename.substr(startPos, substrLength);
+}
+
+bool LatentSvmDetector::load( const vector<string>& filenames, const vector<string>& _classNames )
+{
+    clear();
+
+    CV_Assert( _classNames.empty() || _classNames.size() == filenames.size() );
+
+    for( size_t i = 0; i < filenames.size(); i++ )
+    {
+        const string filename = filenames[i];
+        if( filename.length() < 5 || filename.substr(filename.length()-4, 4) != ".xml" )
+            continue;
+
+        CvLatentSvmDetector* detector = cvLoadLatentSvmDetector( filename.c_str() );
+        if( detector )
+        {
+            detectors.push_back( detector );
+            if( _classNames.empty() )
+            {
+                classNames.push_back( extractModelName(filenames[i]) );
+            }
+            else
+                classNames.push_back( _classNames[i] );
+        }
+    }
+
+    return !empty();
+}
+
+void LatentSvmDetector::detect( const Mat& image,
+                                vector<ObjectDetection>& objectDetections,
+                                float overlapThreshold,
+                                int numThreads )
+{
+    objectDetections.clear();
+    if( numThreads <= 0 )
+        numThreads = 1;
+
+    for( size_t classID = 0; classID < detectors.size(); classID++ )
+    {
+        IplImage image_ipl = image;
+        CvMemStorage* storage = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
+        CvSeq* detections = cvLatentSvmDetectObjects( &image_ipl, detectors[classID], storage, overlapThreshold, numThreads );
+
+        // convert results
+        objectDetections.reserve( objectDetections.size() + detections->total );
+        for( int detectionIdx = 0; detectionIdx < detections->total; detectionIdx++ )
+        {
+            CvObjectDetection detection = *(CvObjectDetection*)cvGetSeqElem( detections, detectionIdx );
+            objectDetections.push_back( ObjectDetection(Rect(detection.rect), detection.score, (int)classID) );
+        }
+
+        cvReleaseMemStorage( &storage );
+    }
+}
+
+} // namespace cv