The invention discloses a multi-camera cooperative
visual tracking system and method for invading animals of a
transformer substation, and the
system achieves the precise monitoring and real-time tracking of the invading animals, such as birds, mice, cats and dogs, in a
transformer substation region through the cooperation of a plurality of high-resolution cameras. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, acquiring a region video
stream by a plurality of cameras, setting a main tracking camera (MTU), and extracting a dynamic target region through a
frame difference method and a threshold segmentation technology; and then
background noise is removed through area filtering, and a target contour is obtained. Target tracking adopts SIFT
feature extraction and a
brute force matching
algorithm (BFMatcher) to realize cross-frame matching, and a
Kalman filter is used to predict and update a target position. In order to ensure
cooperative work of multiple cameras, a cross-view tracking technology is introduced into the
system, and when a target crosses the view field of the cameras, adjacent cameras share target information, and a detection mode is activated in advance. The method overcomes the problem of a single
visual angle blind area, effectively improves the monitoring efficiency, and is suitable for
continuous monitoring and accurate tracking of animals around the
transformer substation in a complex environment.