Abstract:the detection and tracking of moving targets always occupies an important position in the research field of computer vision, the technology has been applied to traffic management, military, public safety monitoring and other fields more and more widely. This paper focuses on the detection and tracking of the target video motion object based on TMS320DM642 development platform, this paper is divided into two parts of hardware and software design, the hardware part mainly includes video acquisition module, video processing module and display module three part, through the CCD camera capture video signal, then the acquisition of the analog video signal to the SEED VPM642 video processing module, the high performance video decoder TVP5150 transform analog video signal into a video signal in BT.656 format in VPM642, and transmits the signal to the video interface of DM642; in the system software, system uses the TI DSP integrated development environment CCS2.2 as a software development platform, real-time detection and tracking of moving object in the final realization of DM642 video processing platform.