  We present a new particle tracking algorithm to accurately resolve large
deformation and rotational motion fields, which takes advantage of both local
and global particle tracking algorithms. We call this method the ScalE and
Rotation Invariant Augmented Lagrangian Particle Tracking (SerialTrack). This
method builds an iterative scale and rotation invariant topology-based feature
for each particle within a multi-scale tracking algorithm. The global kinematic
compatibility condition is applied as a global augmented Lagrangian constraint
to enhance the tracking accuracy. An open source software package implementing
this numerical approach to track both 2D and 3D, incremental and cumulative
deformation fields is provided.
