Simple object tracking with OpenCV - PyImageSearch

Today's tutorial kicks off a new series of blog posts on object tracking, arguably one of the most requested topics here on PyImageSearch. Furthermore, object tracking allows us to apply a unique ID to each tracked object, making it possible for us to count unique objects in a video. Object tracking is paramount to building a person counter (which we'll do later in this series). This is a tall order for any computer vision or image processing algorithm and there are a variety of tricks we can play to help improve our object trackers. But before we can build such a robust method we first need to study the fundamentals of object tracking.