A Simple Algorithm for Video Object Tracking

Abstract:

As one of the crucial issues of computer vision, video object tracking is widely used in many applications, such as visual surveillance, human-computer interaction, visual transportation, visual navigation of robots, military guidance, etc. The existing object tracking algorithms in engineering applications have the huge amount of computation, which can not meet the needs of real-time system applications, and the tracking accuracy is not high. So a simple and practical video object tracking algorithm is proposed in this paper. The Otsu algorithm is used for image binarization to filter the background, and the object edge is further processed based on mathematical morphology, and thus the tracking object is more clearly. The centroid weighted method determines the location of the center of the object only by one step calculation, which makes the location more accurate. The experimental results show that the algorithm of the paper is effective for detecting and tracking of a moving object in a static scene and it has a low complexity.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 303-306)
• Pages: 1552-1555
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.303-306.1552
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: Zhao Xia Fu, Li Ming Wang
• Keywords: Centroid Weighted, Computer Vision, Image Segmentation, Object Tracking

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