The invention discloses a rapid retrograde detecting and tracking monitoring method under complex environment, and the method comprises the following steps of: extracting moving objective foreground from video frames through a inter-frame difference method, then calculating an optical flow field at each point from the strong corner set of future objectives to obtain the optical flow field set; judging whether a moving direction of the strong corner is within the set retrograde direction and its allowance: if so, recording these points, forming the retrograde point set, and giving a rapid detection warning, at the same time, precisely warning by tracking to judge whether retrograde events are occurred, obtaining the strong corner set required for being tracked, calculating the optical flow field set on each point, upon existence of the retrograde point set, finding out a tracking starting point corresponding to each point from the point set, and drawing up tracking paths; upon completion of tracking, when the amount of paths in a retrograde status is less than a decision threshold, judging rapid warning as a false alarm, otherwise, generating retrograde events. Tracking and precise warning are introduced into the method such that the accuracy rate of the retrograde detection is greatly improved.