Real-Time Human Motion Detection and Tracking

This paper describes a real-time system for human detection, tracking and motion analysis. The system is an automated video surveillance system for detecting and monitoring people in both indoor and outdoor environments. Detection and tracking are achieved through several steps: First, we design a robust, adaptive background model that can deal with lightning changes, long term changes in the scene and objects occlusions. This model is used to get foreground pixels using the background subtraction method. Afterwards, noise cleaning and object detection are applied, followed by human modeling to recognize and monitor human activity in the scene such as human walking or running.