The present invention integrates a low power and high compression pixel-wise coded exposure (PCE) camera with advanced object detection, tracking, and classification algorithms into a real-time system. A PCE camera can control exposure time of every pixel in the camera and at the same time can compress multiple frames into a compressed frame. Consequently, it can significantly improve the dynamic range as well as reduce data storage and transmission bandwidth usage. Conventional approaches utilize PCE camera for object detection, tracking and classification, require the compressed frames to be reconstructed. These approaches are extremely time consuming and hence makes the PCE cameras unsuitable for real-time applications. The present invention presents an integrated solution that incorporates advanced algorithms into the PCE camera, saving reconstruction time and making it feasible to work in real-time applications.