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Detecting the foreground region of interest (ROI) for video sequences is an important issue both for video codecs and monitoring systems. In this paper, we propose a flow-process-based method to detect foreground ROI using four steps: global motion compensation, motion block extraction, multi-layer segmentation, and model updating. The former two procedures extract the foreground motion blocks and form a motion mask, and the latter two procedures remove the pixels belonging to the background inside the motion mask and update the color distributions of the background model. In addition, a block-based to pixel-based detection scheme is proposed to allow detection flexibility. Another benefit of the proposed method is that it can be embedded in video codecs for real-time ROI detection and encoding. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves improved performance in terms of both detection accuracy and time consumption.