This document summarizes research on comparative analysis of video processing object detection techniques. It begins with an abstract describing the goal of object detection in images and videos and challenges involved. It then discusses benefits of object detection and provides a literature review summarizing the approaches of 15 other research papers on object detection, including approaches using background subtraction, segmentation, feature extraction and deep learning algorithms. The document concludes by stating that object detection has wide applications and research is ongoing to improve accuracy and robustness of detection.