The invention discloses a multi-target positioning method based on a
camera network and belongs to the technical field of
multimedia sensor networks. The multi-target positioning method comprises steps as follows: firstly, at the initialization stage,
camera network initialization is completed through four steps of establishment of a camera unit, computation of camera
homography conversion, computation of camera overlapping vision fields and computation of a camera mapping model; secondary, at the target positioning stage, target detection and tracking of a
single camera are completed, and target matching is realized through comprehensive utilization of the topological relation among the cameras, as well as geometric constraint and target characteristic information; finally, physical location of targets is computed by the aid of the camera model, and multi-target positioning is realized. According to the multi-target positioning method based on the
camera network, stable tracking of multiple targets can be realized, and the method has the characteristics of low cost, high positioning accuracy, stable operation and the like and has broad application prospect in the fields of
battlefield reconnaissance,
safety monitoring, boundary protection and the like.