To solve the low automatic degree and low accurate alarm rate in the traditional intelligent surveillance system, a motion object segmentation algorithm based on level set method is proposed and implemented. The algorithm gains the primal contour curve by luminance difference between the video frames, and sets the curve as the primal zero level set. Then the narrow band level set algorithm is used to evolve the curve until achieving the segmentation result. Experimental results show that this method can greatly save the level set segmentation time and increase the detecting efficiency.
