In this study, the current state-of-the-art in moving objects segmentation for intelligent video surveillance has been surveyed. An efficient Modified Directional Lifting-based 9/7 Discrete Wavelet Transform (MDLDWT) structure is proposed to further reduce the computational cost and preserve the fine shape information in low resolution image. Although perfect moving object detection in a practical environment is a challenging task due to the vague object shape issues in the low resolution configuration, the experimental results document that the proposed low complexity MDLDWT scheme can provide more precise detection rate for multiple moving objects, and the fine shape information can be effectively preserved for the real-time video surveillance applications in both indoor and outdoor environments.Index terms-fine shape information, modified directional lifting-based discrete wavelet transform, moving object detection, discrete wavelet transform.