The invention discloses a multiple-scale object tracking method using adaptive characteristic fusion; the method comprises the following steps: a, a
feature extraction step: reading image and initialization object positions, extracting HOG features and CN features of an object image, calculating color information entropy of the image, and carrying out adaptive characteristic fusion; b, a multi-scale classifier training step: using a cosine
window function to filter a
characteristic matrix, multi-scale zooming the
characteristic matrix, converting the multi-scale
characteristic matrix into Fourier expansion for calculation, thus obtaining classifier models of various scales; c, an
object detection step: reading the next frame of
video image, extracting features, converting the features intothe Fourier expansion domain, using a multi-
scale model to calculate the optimal object position, building a Bayes
scale estimation framework, and solving the object optimal scale; d, a model updating step: re-training classifiers for newly detected object positions, and updating models of original classifiers and newly obtained classifiers according to certain linear proportion. The method can effectively improve the feature expression ability, so the object
scale estimation can be more accurate, thus greatly improving the tracing precision.