The invention requests to protect a
vehicle detection and tracking method based on
monocular vision, and belongs to the field of
machine vision. The method comprises the steps that in a
vehicle detection stage, a rod driving region is determined by combining interest region extracting, self-adaptive Canny
edge detection and lane line detection, then a vehicle bottom shadow is obtained by means of local tonal value statistics and a
thresholding method in which a maximum between-class
variance method is used twice in an integrated manner, furthermore, a supposed vehicle is proposed, and then the supposed vehicle is verified through a texture description co-occurrence
matrix method; and in a vehicle tracking stage, an
improved algorithm combining Kalman filtering with
Cam shift is adopted to carry out multi-target tracking, then new target judging, whether searching is successful, and whether a vehicle is out of an edge are used as three standards, and if a new target is detected twice, the new target is processed as a new tracking target, and the tracking target is updated continuously. By adopting the method,
vehicle detection and multi-target tracking under a dynamic background are realized, and the instantaneity, the accuracy and the reliability are relatively high.