Welcome to the home of Python Tracking Framework (PTF) - a collection of registration based trackers (like IC, ESM, NN, PF and L1) and related utilities implemented in Python and Cython along with supporting Matlab scripts

• OpenCV
• Numpy
• Scipy
• Matplotlib
• FLANN (optional)
• Cython (optional)
• MTF (optional)
• Xvision (optional)

All optional Cython and C modules used by PTF can be compiled and installed by simply calling make from the root folder. This in turn calls the make commands in the following sub folders: CModules, cython_trackers, l1.

• It also executes the command to compile and install the Python interface to the Modular Tracking Framework called pyMTF. This requires the source code of this library to be present in ~/mtf folder. Change the variable MTF_DIR in the makefile if the source code is present elsewhere.

• If Xvision is not installed, either remove xv from the all target of the makefile before calling the make command or call the following separate commands instead:

  • make dl
  • make cython
  • make l1
  • make mtf

• If make does not work on your system (e.g. if it has Windows OS), run python setup_cython.py build_ext --inplace to compile the Cython modules.

Setting parameters:

Set db_root_path in main.py if running on a dataset sequence otherwise select usb camera for source and adjust camera_id in main.py. All other parameters can be adjusted either from the GUI or in config.py.

Running with GUI:

python main.py

Running without GUI with default parameter settings in config.py:

python main.py 0