Background subtraction

You can refer to the following article for details about background subtraction. Note that if you publish results based on this code, this is the paper you must reference.

Multi-Layer Background Subtraction Based on Color and Texture.
Jian Yao and Jean-Marc Odobez
in CVPR Visual Surveillance workshop (CVPR-VS), Minneapolis, June 2007

@conference{yao2007multi,
  title={{Multi-layer background subtraction based on color and texture}},
  author={Yao, J. and Odobez, J.M.},
  booktitle={IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR'07},
  pages={1--8},
  year={2007}
}

Human Detection

You can refer to the following article for details about human detection. Note that if you publish results based on this code, this is the paper you must reference.

Fast Human Detection from Videos Using Covariance Features.
Jian Yao and Jean-Marc Odobez
in 8th European Conference on Computer Vision Visual Surveillance workshop (ECCV-VS), Marseille, October 2008

@article{yao2008fast,
  title={{Fast human detection from videos using covariance features}},
  author={Yao, J. and Odobez, J.M.},
  year={2008}
}