SwisTrack

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 4 running on Ubuntu 8.04

SwisTrack 4 running on Windows XP

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.