Person and Vehicle Detection
With Person and Vehicle detection available natively within OpenEye Web Services (OWS), you can receive alerts or search for person and vehicle events, regardless of your camera's analytic capabilities. The server-side detection allows you to leverage motion events tied to individuals or vehicles to surveil your business without a costly camera upgrade. Harness the full power of OWS, receiving real-time notifications to email and mobile, or quickly search for these events on the timeline bar to easily locate the video you need. Person and vehicle introduces the next set of powerful new features from OWS analytics and includes other improvements such as bounding boxes within notifications and the ability to record on edge-based person and vehicle events where analytics capabilities exist. OWS analytics and person and vehicle detection provide you with more actionable intelligence, natively available in OWS, enhancing the value from your existing video surveillance system.
NOTE: Recorder Analytics requires Apex Server Software version 3.0.2 or higher. For enabling Analytics on previous versions, see Video Analytics.
NOTE: OpenEye Server-Side Analytics are only available with certain licensing tiers. See OWS Licensing for more information.
NOTE: The number of supported channels of server-side analytics will vary depending on both hardware configuration and the analytics or other features enabled. It is recommended that you leverage the system metric tools in OWS Server Software Setup under General Configuration > Cameras > Analytics when setting up analytics on your system.
Enable Analytics
To enable Analytics for an individual camera:
- Connect to a recorder, and go to Setup > Cameras.
- Select the camera you want to configure from the Camera List.
- Click on the Analytics tab and check the boxes to enable Motion Detected, Person Detected, Vehicle Detected, or General Analytics (or a combination of those options) for the supported camera.
NOTE: OpenEye edge analytic cameras have analytics enabled by default when added to a recorder.
NOTE: See OpenEye Server-Side Analytics for more information on configuring Recorder and Camera Analytics.
Person Detected
With Person Detected events available natively within OpenEye Web Services (OWS), you can receive alerts or search for person-detected events, regardless of your camera's analytic capabilities. The server-side detection allows you to leverage motion events tied to individuals or surveil your business without a costly camera upgrade.
NOTE: The amount of channels for person-detected events is limited based on hardware compatibility. Contact your sales representative if you have any questions.
How to Configure a Person Detected Area
- From the Analytics tab, check Person Detected.
- Click Setup under the Configuration column.
- Click Add Area, then click and drag the capture square to create or delete the area.
NOTE: Left click, release, and move to draw a custom polygonal shape one line at a time. Draw and click the last line to the starting point to complete the Area.
NOTE: Person Detected areas can be subtracted to disable detection for specific areas of the video stream and motion grids can be drawn over each other.
- Continue modifying areas as desired using the tools below the camera frame and the Confidence Threshold.
Motion and Motion Region Options
Confidence Threshold – Used to determine when an object meets an acceptable definition of a person. All objects are classified with a percentage likelihood that the object is legitimate from 0% - 100%. See Best Practices for more details. To help set the Confidence Threshold, a visual red outline will appear in the motion region when a person is detected. See Smart Motion Best Practices for more details.
Pre Recording – Time when recording starts from a person detected event.
Record on event detection – Remove the check to disable events from being recorded on the event stream.
Reset Defaults – Resets Confidence Threshold back to default values.
Select – Allows detection grids to be moved.
Select All – Draws a full detection grid over the image.
Add Area – Draw individual detection grids.
Remove Area – Allows removal of detection grid areas within a grid.
Clear All – Reset all customized options back to original camera default settings.
- Click Save.
How to Delete a Person Detected Area
- Click to select the desired Person Detected Area.
- Click Remove Area to delete the selected area.
Vehicle Detected
With Vehicle Detected events available natively within OpenEye Web Services (OWS), you can receive alerts or search for vehicle-detected events, regardless of your camera's analytic capabilities. The server-side detection allows you to leverage motion events tied to vehicles to surveil your business without a costly camera upgrade.
NOTE: The amount of channels for vehicle-detected events is limited based on hardware compatibility. Contact your sales representative if you have any questions.
How to Configure a Vehicle Detected Area
- From the Analytics tab, check Vehicle Detected.
- Click Setup under the Configuration column.
- Click Add Area, then click and drag the capture square to create or delete the area.
NOTE: Left click, release, and move to draw a custom polygonal shape one line at a time. Draw and click the last line to the starting point to complete the Area.
NOTE: Vehicle Detected areas can be subtracted to disable detection for specific areas of the video stream and motion grids can be drawn over each other.
- Continuing modifying areas as desired using the tools below the camera frame and the Confidence Threshold.
Motion and Motion Region Options
Confidence Threshold – Used to determine when an object meets an acceptable definition of a vehicle. All objects are classified with a percentage likelihood that the object is legitimate from 0% - 100%. See Best Practices for more details. To help set the Confidence Threshold, a visual red outline will appear in the motion region when a vehicle is detected. See Smart Motion Best Practices for more details.
Pre Recording – Time when recording starts from a person detected event.
Record on event detection – Remove the check to disable events from being recorded on the event stream.
Reset Defaults – Resets Confidence Threshold back to default values.
Select – Allows detection grids to be moved.
Select All – Draws a full detection grid over the image.
Add Area – Draw individual detection grids.
Remove Area – Allows removal of detection grid areas within a grid.
Clear All – Reset all customized options back to original camera default settings.
- Click Save.
How to Delete a Person Detected Area
- Click to select the desired Vehicle Detected Area.
- Click Remove Area to delete the selected area.
Best Practices for Configuring Person and Vehicle Analytics
Configure Cameras for Optimal Use
- For optimal detection, start at 10ppf and adjust from there to a higher count if needed.
NOTE: Apex Server Software uses the low stream to detect objects.
- Set the optimal light level at 7 lux and adjust higher if needed.
NOTE: Object detection will occur at lower lux levels, but may be less accurate. At lower lux levels, IR is recommended.
- Angle the camera so that objects you wish to detect can contrast against background objects. Detection accuracy will vary based on how well the object contrasts against the background. Higher contrast will result in better accuracy.
Setting up Detection in Apex Server Software
- Adjust confidence level based on how much the object will blend in to the scene.
- Higher confidence will reduce false positive events.
- Lower confidence will provide detection at further distances but may result in false positive events.
Keep in Mind
- Objects are only detected while moving.
- A person's head and shoulders need to be fully in the scene in order to be detected.
- Create a region of interest to exclude areas that might generate false alarms (such as high traffic areas that are not of interest).
Person and Vehicle Alerts and Notifications
Analytic event alerts can be configured to send notifications with multiple images. The first image will show the full camera view (configured detection areas will be outlined). The second image will show a close up of the detection area.
If an alert is configured as an Active Alert, the top of the notification will display "Active Alert."
NOTE: Multiple image person and vehicle alert email and mobile notifications can only be configured with analytics compatible OpenEye, AXIS and Hanwha cameras.