This program is a highly customizable OpenCV demo application, to test some of the OpenCV features.
The source is based on the official OpenCV documentation.
To build the program in windows, double click the GenerateSolution.bat file and open the resulting Visual Studio Solution.
In Visual Studio you can select to build either the Debug or Release build.
Keep in mind, that the program needs command line arguments as well, you need to provide them by inserting them into the "Settings > Debugging > Command line arguments" setting if you wish to start the application from within visual studio.
The application needs at least the filepath to the test video, you can use any test video you would like.
The second commandline argument is the tracking type, there are only a few Trackers supported by this program, here is a list of the available tracker types:
- KCF (default if no options is provided): KCF is a novel tracking framework that utilizes properties of circulant matrix to enhance the processing speed.
- MIL: The MIL algorithm trains a classifier in an online manner to separate the object from the background.
- TLD: TLD is a novel tracking framework that explicitly decomposes the long-term tracking task into tracking, learning and detection.
- CSRT: Discriminative Correlation Filter with Channel and Spatial Reliability.
- MOSSE: Visual Object Tracking using Adaptive Correlation Filters (this tracker works with grayscale images, if passed bgr ones, they will get converted internally.)
Note: (The descriptions are taken from the brief descriptions of the respective classes.)
You also can build the solution inside visual studio but execute the program directly outside of visual studio.
To do that, you need to first switch into the build directoy like this (assuming you are in the root directory of the github repo):
cd OpenCVDemo/bin/Release-windows-x86_64/ # to run the release build, or
cd OpenCVDemo/bin/Debug-windows-x86_64/ # to run the debug buildAfter that you should be able to execute the program like this:
./OpenCVDemo.exe test.mov KCFThis command would execute the program with the video file "test.mov" and the tracking type "KCF". You can adjust this command to your needs, based on the commandline explanations above.