Colour Histogram Segmentation for Object Tracking in Remote Laboratory Environments

Remote Laboratories are online learning environments where a major component of student’s learning objectives is met though visual feedback. This is usually through a static webcam feedback at non-HD resolution. An effective method of enhancing the learning procedure is by tracking certain objects of learning interests in the video feedback. Detecting and tracking moving objects within a video sequence commonly employs varying segmentation methods such as background subtraction to isolate objects of interest. This paper presents two colour histograms models as a method to segment frames from a video sequence and an end-to-end tracking system. Six tests and their results are presented in this paper with varying frame rates and sequencing times.