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Firstly, previous studies respecting the NFCV system were briefly reviewed and several issues during application testing were analyzed and summarized. The improved work mainly focuses on the segmentation and discrimination of jet trajectory adapted to complex lighting environment and interference scenes. It mainly includes parameters adjustment on the variance threshold and background update rate of the mixed Gaussian background method, jet trajectory discrimination based on length and area proportion parameters, parameterization, and feature extraction of jet trajectory based on superimposed radial centroid method. When compared with previous works, the proposed method reduces the average error of prediction results from 1.36 m to 0.1 m, and the error variance from 1.58 m to 0.13 m. The experimental results suggest that every part plays an important role in improving the functionality and reliability of the NFCV system, especially the background subtraction and radial centroid methods. 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