Method, control apparatus, and system for tracking and shooting target

The present invention relates to the field of electronic photographing technologies, and provides a method, a control apparatus and a system for tracking and shooting a target. The method includes: in a tracking and shooting process, controlling, by a control apparatus, a photographing apparatus on an unmanned aerial vehicle to collect an image, and obtaining the collected image; selecting a tracked target in the image; calculating a movement speed, a movement direction and a location on the current image that are of the tracked target according to comparison between consecutive neighboring frame images; and controlling, according to the calculated movement speed, movement direction and location on the current image, the unmanned aerial vehicle to track the tracked target, so that the tracked target is always located on the image collected by the photographing apparatus. According to the present invention, tracking and shooting can be automatically performed on a target in an aerial shooting process, without a need to manually remotely control the unmanned aerial vehicle to track a moving target. Therefore, locating precision is high, the moving target can be tracked and shot, and a high-quality video or photo can be obtained.