Tracking a missile | OpenCV Python Object Tracking Motion Detector
Is a motion detector reliable enough to follow a missile? What if the camera viewpoint is shaking too fast, making the object appear to teleport?
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My tracker tries to follow a cruise missile skimming over water and a hypersonic missile. The cruise missile is recorded with an unstable camera platform, making the missile appear to teleport from frame to frame and introducing huge POV-induced apparent motion. The second missile is not as difficult other than being very small and hard to distinguish from the background, and leaving a long smoke trail (distracting to the motion detector).
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Clips used for demo are from YouTube (I do not know the original source unfortunately; if you are the owner, let me know so I can cite your video).