Where is the best place to start with image recognition?

I am trying to use an intel realsense camera to recognize and track a tomato, and then move on to multiple tomatos. Where is the best place to start? I can only code in matlab and I am unsure where to really start. Should I base it on color, shape or both? Where is it that I can really to do all of this?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Start by going through the tracking examples in the Computer Vision System Toolbox. http://www.mathworks.com/products/computer-vision/ Post images if you want more help. It matters what the size range is, and whether the tomatoes touch/overlap (because then you'd have to separate them, which is not easy).