We present an improved AdaBoost algorithm to avoid overfitting phenomenon. AdaBoost is widely known as one of the best solutions for object detection. However, AdaBoost tends to be overfitting when a training dataset has noisy samples. To avoid the overfitting phenomenon of AdaBoost, the proposed method divides positive samples into K clusters using k-means algorithm, and then uses only one cluster to minimize the training error at each iteration of weak learning. Through this, excessive partitions of samples are prevented. Also, noisy samples are excluded for the training of weak learners so that the overfitting phenomenon is effectively reduced. In our experiment, the proposed method shows better classification and generalization ability than conventional boosting algorithms with various real world datasets.