Object position from a video

I want to use a camera that takes a video and record a pedestrian walking on a bridge. Is it possible to find the exact location of the pedestrian per frame, from a starting point on the bridge? If It's possible, do I need to calibrate then record my video?

Answer 1

[Viranch Patel]

I found a MATLAB answer similar to this. You can look into that, it may help you.

https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/154529-matlab-code-for-object-detection-and-tracking-from-video

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Scroll way down to the "Object Tracking" section of this web page in the Computer Vision Toolbox:

https://www.mathworks.com/products/computer-vision.html#object-tracking