I have used the following code which is similar to yours and it is working well. I am also taking the inputs from my webcam. In your code, i didnt find any imshow() and waitkey. Try to use them. My code is following:
#include "opencv2/core/core.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/video/background_segm.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
using namespace cv;
int main()
{
VideoCapture cap;
bool update_bg_model = true;
cap.open(0);
cv::BackgroundSubtractorMOG2 bg;//(100, 3, 0.3, 5);
bg.set ("nmixtures", 3);
std::vector < std::vector < cv::Point > >contours;
cv::namedWindow ("Frame");
cv::namedWindow ("Background");
Mat frame, fgmask, fgimg, backgroundImage;
for(;;)
{
cap >> frame;
bg.operator()(frame, fgimg);
bg.getBackgroundImage (backgroundImage);
cv::erode (fgimg, fgimg, cv::Mat ());
cv::dilate (fgimg, fgimg, cv::Mat ());
cv::findContours (fgimg, contours, CV_RETR_EXTERNAL, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_NONE);
cv::drawContours (frame, contours, -1, cv::Scalar (0, 0, 255), 2);
cv::imshow ("Frame", frame);
cv::imshow ("Background", backgroundImage);
char k = (char)waitKey(30);
if( k == 27 ) break;
}
return 0;
}