SwisTrack

SwisTrack 4 running on Ubuntu 8.04

SwisTrack 4 running on Windows XP

SwisTrack 4 is a powerful software for tracking robots, humans, animals and objects using a camera or a recorded video as input source. It uses Intel's OpenCV library for fast image processing and contains interfaces for USB, FireWire and GigE cameras, as well as AVI files.

SwisTrack is an open-source project hosted on SourceForge. It is written in C++ and easily extensible through components (plug-ins).

Contents

1. Download and Installation
2. Using SwisTrack - an Introduction
3. Working with the Display
4. The Timeline
5. Interfacing SwisTrack
   1. 3rd party software
6. Components
   1. background subtraction
      1. Components/AdaptiveBackgroundSubtractionMedian
      2. Components/AdaptiveBackgroundSubtractionGray
      3. Components/AdaptiveBackgroundSubtractionColor
      4. Components/AdaptiveBackgroundSubtractionCheungKamath
      5. Components/BackgroundSubtractionGray
      6. Components/SpecificColorSubtraction
      7. Components/HSVBackgroundSubtractionColor
      8. Components/BackgroundSubtractionColor
   2. Components/ConvertToGray
   3. Components/ConvertToColor
   4. Components/ColorSwapper
   5. Components/ColorBlur
   6. Components/ConvertBayerToColor
   7. blobs
      1. Components/BlobDetectionMinMax
      2. Components/BlobDetectionRedGreen
      3. Components/BlobDetectionTwoColors
      4. Components/BlobSelection
   8. Components/ConvertToGray
   9. Components/ConvertToGray
   10. Components/ConvertToGray
   11. Components/ConvertToGray
   12. mask
       1. Components/BinaryMask
       2. Components/GrayMask
       3. Components/ColorMask
   13. Components/BinaryDilation
   14. Components/BinaryErosion
   15. Components/Calibration
       1. Components/CalibrationTSAI
       2. Components/CalibrationFileTSAI
       3. Components/CalibrationLinear
   16. Components/Input
       1. Components/Input Conversion
       2. Components/InputCamera1394
       3. Components/InputCameraGigE
       4. Components/InputCameraUSB
       5. Components/InputFileAVI
       6. Components/OutputFileAVI
       7. Components/InputFileImage
   17. Components/OutputSQLite
   18. Components/Particle Detection
       1. Components/MotionTemplateParticleDetector
   19. Components/FilterParticles
   20. Components/Preprocessing (binary)
   21. Components/Preprocessing (color)
   22. Components/Preprocessing (grayscale)
   23. Components/Thresholding
       1. Components/ThresholdGray
       2. Components/ThresholdColorCommon
       3. Components/ThresholdColorIndependent
       4. Components/DoubleThresholdColorIndependent
   24. Components/Tracking
       1. Components/NearestNeighborTracking
       2. Components/DynamicNearestNeighborTracking
       3. Components/KalmanFilterTrack
       4. Components/TrackSmoothing
   25. Components/Trigger
       1. Components/TriggerTimer
       2. Components/TriggerCounter
   26. Components/IDReaderRing
   27. Components/SimulationParticles
   28. Components/OutputFile
   29. Components/OutputFramesImages
   30. Components/OutputImageStatisticsColor
   31. Components/OutputImageStatisticsGray
   32. Components/OutputImageStatisticsBinary
   33. Components/OutputMarkFrameManual
   34. Components/OutputParticles
   35. Components/MoveBinaryToColor
   36. Components/CamShiftTracking
7. Batch Mode
8. Examples
   1. Examples/Calibration
      1. Examples/Calibration/SemiAutomatic
      2. Examples/Calibration/AutomaticSequential
   2. Examples/IDReaderRing
   3. Examples/MultiCamera
   4. Examples/OutputProcessing
   5. Examples/RobotTracking
9. Frequently Asked Questions
10. SwisTrack for Developers
    1. Setting up a development environment
       1. Linux
       2. Mac OS X
       3. Windows
    2. Implementing a new component
    3. Mailing list
    4. Last Compiling Releases
11. Related Software
    1. Multi-Camera Client
12. License and Contributions

Further reading

If you are using version 3 of SwisTrack, you may be looking for the documentation of version 3 of SwisTrack.