In order to solve tracking failure problem caused by target occlusion, appearance variation and long time tracking in practical monitoring, an object tracking algorithm based on RANdom SAmpling Consensus (RANSAC) estimation was proposed. Firstly, the local invariant feature set in the searching area was extracted. Then the object features were separated from the feature set by using the transfer property of feature matching and non-parametric learning algorithm. At last, the RANSAC estimation of object features was used to track the object location. The algorithm was tested on video data sets with different scenarios and analyzed by using three analysis indicators including accuracy, recall and comprehensive evaluation (F1-Measure). The experimental results show that the proposed method improves target tracking accuracy and overcomes track-drift caused by long time tracking.

In order to solve the problem of information loss caused by local motion blur in daily captured images or videos, a local motion detection algorithm based on region energy estimation was proposed. Firstly, the Harris feature points of the image were calculated, and alternative areas were screened out according to the distribution of feature points of each area. Secondly, according to the characteristic of smooth gradient distribution in monochromatic areas, the gradient distribution of the alternative areas was calculated and the average amplitude threshold was used to filter out most of areas which can be easily misjudged. At last, the blur direction of the alternative areas was estimated according to the energy degeneration feature of motion blur images, and the energy of the blur direction and its perpendicular direction were calculated, thus the monochrome region and defocus blur areas were further removed according to the energy ratio in both above directions. Experimental results on image data sets show that the proposed method can detect the motion blur areas from images with monochromatic areas and defocus blur areas, and effectively improve the robustness and adaptability of local motion blur detection.

A method of object detection with few samples based on two-stage voting was proposed to detect objects using template matching method while there are only a few samples. Firstly, the voting space was constructed off-line by using probability model through several samples. Then, a method of two-stage voting was used to detect objects in testing images. In the first stage, the components of object from testing image were detected, and the positions of components in query image were saved. In the second stage, the similarity of the object was computed integrally based on the components. According to the theory analysis and experimental results, the proposed method obtains lower computation complexity and higher precisions than previous works.