I\'m looking to do background subtracting on an image. I\'m new to MATLAB and new to image processing/analysis, so sorry if any of this sounds stupid. 1) Other than
The Computer Vision System Toolbox has the vision.ForegroundDetector object, which implements a variant of Stauffer and Grimson's GMM background subtraction. The implementation is very fast, leveraging multiple cores. Check out this example of how to use background subtraction as a building block of a system for tracking multiple objects.