The invention discloses a target tracking method based on manifold
discriminant non-negative matrix factorization. The target tracking method comprises the following steps: S1: obtaining a
positive sample and a
negative sample of a current frame; S2: obtaining the characteristics of the
positive sample and the
negative sample and a sample matrix X1; S3: reading a next frame, and obtaining a candidate sample matrix Xu; S4: combining X1 with Xu as a
data matrix X, decomposing X into a non-negative matrix product, and learning to obtain a classifier; S5: through the classifier, calculating the response value of each candidate sample, and selecting a maximum response as a tracking target; and S6: judging whether the current frame is a last frame or not, entering S7 if the current frame is the last frame to output the state of each frame of target, and otherwise,
jumping to S1. By use of the target tracking method, through the non-negative matrix factorization, higher-level image features are obtained, local characteristics can be better described, and shielding and background interference can be eliminated. A semi-supervised
manifold regularization method is used and is combined with marked and unmarked samples to
train the classer which contains
spatial structure information, more
discriminant information can be retained, and illumination and target deformation can be effectively coped with. A
feature extraction model is trained and updated on line to quickly position an appointed target in a video.