The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating compressive measurements of video using spatial-temporal integration. The apparatus includes a detector configured to detect luminance values of a temporal video structure over a period of time based on optical data. The temporal video structure has pixels with a horizontal dimension and a vertical dimension with corresponding luminance values over the period of time. The apparatus also includes a spatial-temporal integrator unit configured to receive a plurality of measurement bases. Also, the spatial-temporal integrator unit is configured to apply each measurement basis to the temporal video structure and to sum resulting values for each measurement basis over the period of time to obtain a set of measurements. The summed values for each measurement basis is the set of measurements.