The invention provides a multiwindow-based target tracking method, belonging to the computer vision technology. The method comprises the following steps: 1) reading in the image of the initial position of the target, constructing N-numbered tracking windows according to the target characteristics and measuring the compensation di between each tracker and the initial position of the target X0=(x0,y0); 2) reading in the next frame image and computing the new position Yi of each tracker on the current image frame; 3) computing the weight Wi of all the trackers; 4) compensating the new positionsYi of all the trackers on the current image frame by the compensation di and obtaining the value shown in the specification; 5) computing the target position parameter E(X) with the weight Wi of the trackers and the value shown in the specification; and 6) initializing all the trackers according to the target position parameter, updating the reference windows of the trackers and continuously reading in the next frame image, wherein each window corresponds to one tracker. The tracking method can improve the tracking performance of the system under the complex conditions of shading, lighting variation, etc and has strong robustness, and the target tracking result is free from control by the result of a certain tracking window.