Ground-Constrained Motion Target Tracking for Monocular Sequence Images

Abstract

For the detection of a moving target position in video monitoring images, the existing locating tracking systems mainly adopt binocular or structured light stereoscopic technology, which has drawbacks such as system design complexity and slow detection speed. In light of these limitations, a tracking method for monocular sequence moving targets is presented, with the introduction of ground constraints into monocular visual monitoring; the principle and process of the method are introduced in detail in this paper. This method uses camera installation information and geometric imaging principles combined with nonlinear compensation to derive the calculation formula for the actual position of the ground moving target in monocular asymmetric nonlinear imaging. The footprint location of a walker is searched in the sequence imaging of a monitoring test platform that is built indoors. Because of the shadow of the walker in the image, the multi-threshold OTSU method based on test target background subtraction is used here to segment the images. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.