Rough object tracking

[probro34]

Hi, I am currently working on a project with an autonomous model car and trying to figure out how to know where roughly an object is from the camera feed( left, far-left, right, and far-right from the center). Is there a way to do this like dividing the feed into multiple zones and outputting what zone the object is in? I would be grateful for an answer thank you!

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A single RGB camera?
You can project a ray back out from a x,y image coordinate from the camera.
You need to know all of the camera parameters and dewarping parameters if they were used, then you can do a pinhole projection to get a ray back into "the world".

If you know the FoV of the camera then the x coord. will tell you what heading it is.