Hello. At the present time in the target tracking community (including for video sequences) it is not possible to say what the "best" object tracking algorithm is, even if you define what you mean by "best", whether this be most accurate, best sensitivity, etc.

In the last 10 years or so thousands of papers have been written on particle filtering, PHD filters, etc. Prior to this, at least for recursive tracking as opposed to batch, the state of the art was considered to be MHT (multihypotehsis tracking).

AFAIK There is unfortunately only 1 paper that compares MHT and the PHD filter and no papers comparing particle filtering with MHT. The one comparison that exists in the public domain is not conclusive and used a home-grown MHT, not a commercial grade one. Another important observation is that almost all tracking papers use a 2-D measurement and 4-D state. This means that any false alarms are distributed in a 2-D volume that is typically visualised by plotting all the measurement data on a 2-D plot with time on the x-axis. This gives the impression of a huge clutter density when the actual clutter density is in fact very low (compared, for instance, with passive sonar data).

I hope people find these comments thought provoking, since they are not aligned with popular thinking on the subject. For further information, please refer to the survey paper below.

If you wish to fill the gap and perform a comparative simulation, please feel free to use the benchmark sonar data sets described below and available from ResearchGate. These data sets are for 1-D measurements and are very challenging - i.e. a basic tracker like the nearest neighbour Kalman filter often fails on this data.

See the third link for further comments on the false alarm density issue. This paper compares a MHT-like approach with several other conventional approaches in terms of track loss and track swap performance - which are best judged separately, rather than using a combined or all-in-one metric.

Disclaimer: All comments are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer.

Article Taxonomy of multiple target tracking methods

Technical Report Benchmark 4-target passive sonar scenario description for 1-D tracking

Article Multihypothesis Viterbi Data Association: Algorithm Developm...

PSO is the best object tracking algorithm.

The method showed in this article is really good and the code is available in their webpage:

Real-time Compressive Tracking

Kaihua Zhang (The HK PolyU), Lei Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ), Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California at Merced)

ECCV2012

http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cslzhang/CT/CT.htm

KLT algorithm

i have already work on this

code is written in MATLAB

Better you search for openTLD, available in matlab. I have try this before. Realy interest.

This is a more general resource for computer vision and it might be of help:

http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/contents.html

I suggest you to read this paper, the codes are available online at the link below.

Yi Wu, Jongwoo Lim, and Ming-Hsuan Yang, “Online Object Tracking: A Benchmark,” in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013.

http://visual-tracking.net/

Best of luck

Mean-Shift algorithm is better for tracking when preceded by a detection algorithm. It have low computational cost and is robust. The other option is Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) which is almost invariant to many changes in object, like shape, rotation and translation etc.

I have worked on Mean-shift implemented it in real-time. however you can also find the source code of both the techniques on codeforge.com.

can you name some basic algorithms for object tracking other than mean shift algorithm,preferably less complex.?

Geia sou Kostantine, have a look at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259621328_Fast_Object_Re-detection_and_Localization_in_Video_for_Spatio-Temporal_Fragment_Creation and let me know if you need any further help on this.

Conference Paper Fast Object Re-detection and Localization in Video for Spati...