Collaborative Tracking Method in Multi-Camera System

Visual tracking has been a popular task in computer vision in recent years, especially for long-term tracking. A novel object tracking framework is proposed in this paper. For surveillance cameras with overlapping areas, the target area is divided into several regions corresponding to each camera, and a simple re-matching method is used by matching the colors according to the segmented parts. For surveillance cameras without overlapping areas, a time estimation model is employed for continuously tracking objects in different fields of view (FoVs). A demonstration system for collaborative tracking in real time situation is realized finally. The experimental results show that compared with current popular algorithms, the proposed approach has good effect in accuracy and computation time for the application of continuously tracking the pedestrians.