Robust object tracking algorithms using C++ and MATLAB

Abstract

Object tracking, all in all, is a testing issue. Troubles in tracking objects emerge because of unexpected motion of the object, scene appearance change, object appearance change, structures of objects that are not rigid. Besides this full and partial occlusions and motion of the camera also pose challenges. Commonly, we make some assumptions to oblige the tracking issue in the connection of a specific provision. Ordinarily it gets important to track all the moving objects in the real time video. Tracking using colour performs well when the colour of the target is unique compared to its background. Tracking using the contours as a feature is very effective even for non-rigid targets. Tracking using spatial histogram gives satisfactory results even though the target object undergoes size change or has similar coloured background. In this project robust algorithms based on colour, contour and spatiograms to track moving objects have been studied, proposed and implemented.