The invention discloses a multi-target automatic tracking method, which comprises the following steps: A, triggering a teacher tracker, starting face detection tracking, finding a face target in a monitoring region, performing video monitoring and recording according to the face target, and saving images in a characteristic tracking region; B, detecting the number of faces in the monitoring region, repeating the step A if one face exists in the monitoring region, and starting motion target characteristic tracking when over two faces are recognized in the monitoring region; C, finding a cluster point which is most matched with the saved information of the characteristic tracking region in a current image in reference to the information of the characteristic tracking region saved in the step A, determining the location of a target once again according to the cluster point, adjusting the teacher tracker by taking the location of the cluster point as the location of the target, and performing video monitoring and recording on the location of the cluster point.