Abstract:More and more attention has been paid to the study of moving object segmentation in MPEG compressed domain these years, which has already developed into a practical technology. In this paper, an algorithm by using motion vectors and DCT coefficients is put forward for segmenting moving object in MPEG compressed domain. As regards local motion scene, the algorithm produces a better result of segmentation than currently adopted ones. Firstly, the motion vectors are processed by accumulation and median filter; then the areas of non-zero motion vectors are rectified by the Bayesian decision to get high-quality segmentation.