1. A system for video object generation and selective encoding, comprising: a detection module for detecting concurrently a plurality of objects using mean shift in at least one image frame of a series of image frames; a tracking module using mean shift for tracking a first object in the plurality of objects in successive image frames of the series of image frames and segmenting the first object from a background, the background being a second object not being part of the plurality of objects; and an encoder for encoding the first and second objects to be transmitted to a receiver, the first object is transmitted at a higher quality transmission rate and the second object is transmitted at a lower quality transmission rate.