Basic tracking with tracking.js

In this section, we will refresh our knowledge about object detection and create a sample project, which will show how object detection can be presented as object tracking. This is a relatively simple topic but, in some cases, it can outperform other methods. Remember that object detection deals with detecting instances of objects, while tracking deals with locating moving objects over time. If you have only one unique object and you assume it will still be unique on the next frames, then you can calculate its location over time. In that case, we do not need to worry about tracking techniques because the tracking can be done using object detection. Here, we will focus mostly on the tracking.js library (http://trackingjs.com) since it provides the easiest way to do that.

An example of an object tracking application

We already mentioned the idea of using object detection as tracking. The idea is using a unique object on a scene. This can be a colored ball, your...