Simple demo program for color based tracking

Simple script to read a video file and track a single red marker in 2D using hue and saturation.

Description

Simple script to read a video file and track a single red marker in 2D using the hue and saturation values. The largest red blob is detected and the mean co-ordinate position of this blob is tracked. This code does not have any tracking built-in: it treats each frame independently.

This assumes that the video is a constant frame rate video. The resulting co-ordinate time series are stored in the variables: t, Xc and Yc.

Download from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thnv0IQqXFE
for a sample video on which this program was tested.

• Required Products: Image Processing Toolbox; Computer Vision System Toolbox
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.11 (2010b)

[anju]

Hi Prakash,

Would you be able to help on me on the matlab coding for the object tracking of the using Hue value ? As i am new to matlab i couldnt find much details on it .

My object is to perform color calibration in order to define the upper and lower limit of the HUE value for to detect the color at any light intensity .

[Mr Smart]