first target thumbnail image 420 note that the target indicator 440 is not indicating the image of the second person in the captured frame 152 but is instead indicating a location of the first person in another embodiment of the invention the graphical user interface described in fig1 through 6 is used in a video conferencing system each speaker in this context a speaker is a person participating in the video conference a speaker can be any person that is to be tracked is identified using the block 210 through block 214 accordingly a thumbnail image is displayed for each speaker in the target selectors 310 in this embodiment the user need only select the image of the speaker to be tracked and the computer 100 will then begin tracking that speaker this is a significant improvement over previous systems where the user was required to remember which pre set location a particular speaker was speaking from in one embodiment of the invention the computer 100 first returns to the last location the speaker was located at and begins searching for the speaker at that location in another embodiment of the invention the computer 100 returns the video camera 130 to look for the selected speaker from the original location from which the speaker was identified that is the video camera 130 was pointing in a certain direction at.