This document summarizes a research paper on tracking human activity using a stochastic statistical approach. The paper proposes using covariance matrices to represent image regions for feature extraction, rather than traditional histogram-based methods. An improved mathematical model is developed using covariance matrices that is capable of more accurate and faster human/object tracking compared to existing histogram and other approaches. The accuracy of the new mathematical detection model is approximately 94.3% compared to 89.1% for conventional models, based on evaluation using publicly available datasets. The approach uses integral images to quickly compute covariances over regions of interest for efficient tracking.