Tracking
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Tracking can refer to multiple concepts:
- In technology
- Tracker, software that creates tracking modules for the computer representation of music.
- Video tracking, when processing a video sequence, consists in finding the location of an object of the scene on each frame of the sequence.
- Tracking in reference to VCRs means the alignment of the magnetic tape with respect to the reading head. Particularly in earlier two-head VCRs, tracking was very important for proper playback. Most VCRs have controls for tracking, either manual, automatic, or a combination of the two.
- Small-target tracking, a process to trace targets' dynamic states (for example, position, velocity, acceleration) and their identities by means of sensor measurements. Commonly, it is a combined process of state estimation and data association. See Traffic object tracking.
- In sports
- Tracking (hunting), the science and art of learning about a place via animal trails and everything else there.
- Tracking (dog), the act of a dog following a scent trail.
- Tracking trial, a dog competition.
- Tracking (freeflying), in skydiving, the technique of moving horizontally while in free-fall.
- Other areas
- Tracking in education is related to ability grouping.
- Tracking is a portfolio management tool, used for example by index funds, so that the portfolio value always mirror the evolution of a stock market index.
- Tracking in logistics, the process of uniformly building a track of objects that are forwarded to, processed for, applied in or disposed of usage. The obtained track hence is a map depicted or coordinates listed in real-time of the reckoned locations of the respective object.
- Tracking, a subject of reckoning, concerning setting up a track on other objects momentarily viewed from the observer's own location.
- A related concept is that of tracing, which uniformly describes the process of retrospectively generating a trace.
- Tracking (typography), the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all letters in a block of text.
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