Object Tracking Method Based on SURF

An object tracking algorithm based on SURF is presented in this paper. Interest points are detected by SURF detector in reference region which is located in the first frame manually. In the following sequences, the SURF feature points are extracted in a larger window which is selected as test region. In the matching stage, we calculate the Euclidean distance between the descriptor vectors of interest points in the test image and ones in the reference image. The proposed algorithm is implemented on an embedded platform with TI's DM6446 high performance processor. The experimental results show that our system implements a real-time tracking with robustness against appearance variations, scale change, and cluttered scenes.