To use a camera for Crowd estimation, you must define one or more monitoring regions in the camera's field of view.
What you should know
Procedure
- From the Config Tool home page, open the Video task.
- From the area view, select a camera that you applied an analytics scenario to.
- Click Video analytics > People counting, and then click the Crowd estimation scenario to configure.
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Click the Regions tab.
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For a single region, define the shape as required:
- Click and drag the white dots to adjust the shape and position of the region.
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(Optional) Add or remove dots:
- To add a dot, click on any line.
- To remove a dot, select it and click Remove
selection (
).
NOTE: Selected dots turn yellow. A region must contain at least three dots.
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(Optional) Click Add region (
) to add another region to the camera's field of view.
Multiple regions can be used to monitor different parts of the camera's field of view at the same time. - (Optional) Update Region name with the name of the selected region.
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In the Threshold section, configure the following
settings:
- Threshold event
- Enable or disable Crowd detected events.
- Min. count for event
- Sets the threshold for Crowd detected events. When the number of people in a region exceeds this value, a Crowd detected event is triggered.
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In the Statistics section, enable or disable saving
statistics as Crowd size events.
NOTE: Statistics must be enabled to use Security Desk dashboard widgets.
- Click Apply.