Video Analytics API

What is video analytics? Video analytics is the extraction of meaningful and relevant information from digital video. The inherent goal of video analytics is a successful 'understanding' of a scene by a device in real time. What are the advantages of video analytics products? Typically video analytics products can analyze thousands of video feeds in a relatively short period of time. This has the end result of alleviating the manpower burden for both real-time monitoring and forensic searches when dealing with a countless number of surveillance videos. Introducing Pelco's video analytics solution: Pelco Video Analytics is a powerful and versatile imaging analysis system and delivers the power of intelligent video where needed; offering key advantages over centralized approaches. Pelco Video Analytics is capable of the following:

• detecting removed high value items
• finding irregularities in movement
• discovering zone violations
• identifying potentially dangerous abandoned objects
• recognizing camera sabotage in real time
• Mobile DVR
• measuring the number of designated 'target objects' within a pre-defined zone
• and much more

Pelco Video Analytics has several key advantages. Its architecture allows for the ability to immediately process video in real-time, enabling higher levels of accuracy while minimizing bandwidth demands. Pelco Video Analytics is also more open. With a public API, Pelco Video Analytics allows 3rd parties to access its powerful features. Currently the following behaviors are available:

Directional Motion

This behavior triggers an alarm when motion is detected in a specific direction. Users have a wide flexibility in defining areas of interest and activity thresholds, for minimizing false alarms. This is ideal for airports, parking, traffic settings, as well as an endless array of other security scenes.

Adaptive Motion

This advanced motion detection behavior calibrates to scene conditions, allowing the system to distinguish targets from other movement in a scene; such as a headlight glare, blowing leaves, or falling snow. Adaptive Motion reduces false alarms due to environmental conditions, and it is ideal for outdoor applications such as perimeter detection and parking lots.

Vibration Removal

This behavior reduces 'video shake' in applications where cameras are subject to vibration. This is ideal for manufacturing facilities, cameras with long focal lengths, pole-mounted cameras, and a wide array of manufacturing facilities.

Object Removal

This behavior allows the user to define an object or area of interest in a scene. While motion is allowed in the protected zone, an alarm will trigger if the object of interest is removed from the scene. This is ideal for museums and similar asset protection missions. .

Object Counting

This behavior counts objects moving in a specific direction. With Object Counting, users have wide flexibility in defining areas of interest and activity thresholds. An alarm is generated when the threshold is exceeded. This is ideal for traffic, manufacturing, and other similar applications.

Camera Sabotage

This advanced video loss detection determines when video has been compromised; e.g. when a vandal covers a lens or moves a fixed camera away from an intended scene. This is ideal for an array of high security environments.

Abandoned Object

This behavior allows the user to define an object or area of interest within a scene. While motion is allowed in the protected zone, an alarm will trigger when a stationary object is left within the monitored scene. This is ideal for museums and similar asset protection missions.

To learn more about the Pelco Video Analytics API, please visit the Pelco Developer Network website (PDN) at pdn.pelco.com. PDN is Pelco’s developer portal which is the main source of information regarding the Endura Component API, X-Portal, and Pelco's future API efforts. PDN includes reference documentation, an extensive FAQ, and supporting downloads.