Introduction

This chapter comprises three sections. The first section represents the scope of this book. The second section introduces the related works on the issue of moving object detection and tracking (D&T) in videos. Also, the main objective for moving object D&T and main scenarios for visual surveillance applications is given in this chapter. The moving object D&T methods in video processing are categorized in some ways where their respective aspects are taken as the basis of the D&T process. In the second section, the basis of performance and evaluation of moving object D&T process is declared, such as with-ground-truth and without-ground-truth evaluation. In addition, commonly used video datasets, their tools, and some systems for object D&T are briefly introduced. This chapter ends with a third section focused on the main contribution of the study given in this book. © The Author(s) 2013.