Single Object Detection and Tracking Steps

[Giorgos Tzampanakis]

On 2014-01-24, hottrack88 at gmail.com wrote:

> I am doing single object detection and tracking in a video file using
> python & opencv2. As far I know the steps are,
>
> Video to frame conversion
> Grayscale conversion
> Thresholding
> After phase 3, I got sequence of binary images.
>
> My questions are:
>
> How to identify (detect) whether the object is moving or not?
> How to get(track) the object moving coordinates(x,y position)?
> Which method should I use for these?
> I got confused with the words like SIFT feature, Kalman filter, Particle
> filter, optical flow filter etc. Please help me by giving next upcoming
> steps details.
>
> Thanks in advance.

I assume this is homework, so better ask other students.

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