We demonstrate the power of the local correlation tracking technique on stellar data for the first time .
We recover the spot migration pattern of the long-period RS CVn-type binary \sigma Gem from a set of six Doppler images from 3.6 consecutive rotation cycles .
The resulting surface flow map suggests a weak anti-solar differential rotation with \alpha \approx - 0.0022 \pm 0.0016 , and a coherent poleward spot migration with an average velocity of 220 \pm 10 m s ^ { -1 } .
This result agrees with our recent findings from another study and could also be confirmed theoretically .