Hi all, i have been stumbling around looking for a viable method of tracking blobs on either a live image or a movie file. First of all, here is come context.

I have some static camera footage of a public space with people moving around in it, and i wish to track the movement of these people. I don't mean just detect them, i wish to know their position in the current frame and the previous frame. This comparison will help me determine how long they stay in one place etc.

I have tried the BlobDetection library, as well as the openCV library, neither of which seem to index each blob, (making tracking impossible). I have looked at piping in tracked info from MaxMSP and the cv.jit library,(which does support indexing), as well as interfacing with eyesweb. But these solutions aren't ideal. It must be possible to index and track blobs as objects from an extended blob class or something, i just don't have the wherewithal to work it out.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this might work? or come across any methods that i have missed, other libraries etc??

Any help is greatly appreciated!