Object Tracker

[tapkawiman]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this I have searched and looked thru pages and not found what I am looking for. If there is somewhere else this needs to be I would gladly move it.

What I am looking to buy/build is a video camera that will follow an object. I want to track and record an object like a car on a track. I would like it to track it first then figure out how to zoom in and out on the object as it moved further and closer. I would like it so that the object I am tracking has a sensor to track it so as the camera does not get the obect I am following confused with other objects around it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Or if I should look somewhere else point me in that direction.

Thank You

 

[RadioRon]

I have not done any work in this field, but I think this would require a camera backed up by a computer. Tracking objects within a video frame is a well established technology. Here's some background info:Video tracking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perhaps we need to develop the right search key words for this. I used "tracking objects in video"

 

[tapkawiman]

Thanks For The Reply

Seems like all the information I have found on this seam to be with tracking an object within the frame of a still camera. All of the tracking systems that I have found seem to deal with frame matching. I am looking for something that would use a mount with some kind of a system that has servos built into a head unit that would follow a transponder mounted on a object. I would think that would be cheaper than a systemwith a special camera to follow it rather that just a sensor with servos.(Just guessing)???

 

[ben7]

A video camera will likely need a proscessor to match the frames, making the device big and bulky.

 

[tapkawiman]

There has to be a way to track something without a video camera? Maybe radio frequencies, GPS, radar/sonar?