1. An automated object tracking system for tracking a colored object through a series of frames of data, comprising: a first image source device to provide a data array of pixels of a digital image; a second image source device to provide a binary image of the data array; and an analysis system to create a first histogram for columns of the binary image, and a second histogram for rows of the binary image, wherein each of the first histogram and the second histogram are thresholded and filtered, and after thresholding and filtering, are utilized to estimate a center of the colored object in the binary image.