For the problem that there has not been the performance evaluation for kinds of target tracking algorithms based on mean shift under the same data sets,seven representative target tracking algorithms based on mean shift are selected to be evaluated in this paper.The tracking performance is evaluated experimentally on 25 video fragments involving kinds of complex scenes from time-efficiency,success rate and precision.Experiment result shows tracking performances are given under different evaluation indexes and different scenes.The conclusion will provide a reference for the optimization and improvement of target tracking algorithms based on mean shift in the future.