This document presents a study on moving object detection using a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) as an adaptive threshold strategy. The proposed GMM method is compared with the Otsu algorithm and gray thresholding, showing superior performance in terms of Mean Square Error (MSE) and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) across a human video dataset. The results indicate that GMM yields lower MSE and higher PSNR values, demonstrating its effectiveness for video surveillance applications.