The invention discloses a vision target tracking method based on sparse representation and belongs to the technical field of
computer vision. The method includes the steps that firstly, a judgment dictionary, a matching dictionary and a
gray level matrix T which are needed for following tracking
processing are determined based on target images, image frames to be tracked are tracked, multiple first
candidate image sample sets are sampled, K representative cluster centers are selected through K mean value clustering, the confidence values of the cluster centers are calculated based on the judgment dictionary, a sample center is set based on the largest
confidence value so as to acquire second
candidate image sample sets, N candidate images with the highest confidence values are selected from the sets, a
gray level matrix of the candidate images is sampled on the basis of the matching dictionary and through fragments, and the
candidate image with the highest similarity to the
gray level matrix T serves as the tracking target of the current frame. The method is applied to the intelligent monitoring field and has the high robustness on the aspects of tracked target posture change, environment illumination change and blockage and the like.