Method and device for tracking and locating target for aircraft

The present invention provides a method and target tracking and positioning apparatus for an aircraft, the method comprising the steps of: a first onboard camera and the second camera is calibrated to obtain the calibration parameters; certain specified characteristics and location tracking information requires ; corrected according to the calibration parameters, the image of the first camera and the second camera to obtain a first camera and a second camera image; camera according to a first corrected image corrected image and the second camera, and the camera generates a first corrected image as a reference parallax image; reference characteristic information, using the first camera image and the parallax image correction, target tracking target area for the destination location; and extracting feature points in the target area in a first corrected image camera and a second camera with corrected image matches the position information of the target is calculated based on the feature points of the matching success. The method of the present invention will be better track the target, and the target location information can be obtained.

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