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Generic Object Search

Open Queries. Select Generic Object Search from the list on the left.

Add videos

  1. Select one or more videos from the list. Click Next.

Note that, currently, live RTSP streams cannot be used with Generic Object Search.

  1. Select a time frame for the analytics to run, depending on the type of video(s) chosen:
  • Earliest: Run the query from the time shown (set during video registration as the beginning timestamp of the video).
  • Latest: Run the query until the time shown (set during video registration as the end timestamp of the video).
  • Given Date: You can select a custom start and end date and time to run the query on. Type the desired date and time or select them by clicking the calendar icon.
  • Live: Analysis is run live, continously.
  • Interval: You can select a custom start and end date and time to run the query on. Type the desired date and time or select them by clicking the calendar icon.
  • Set interval to: Choose from the presets below to run the query on a given time inmterval.

Info

Note that Live analysis is disabled when multiple video types are chosen for a single query.

  • Earliest: Run the query from the time shown (set during video registration as the beginning timestamp of the video).
  • Latest: Run the query until the time shown (set during video registration as the end timestamp of the video).
  • Given Date: You can select a custom start and end date and time to run the query on. Type the desired date and time or select them by clicking the calendar icon.
  • Set interval to: Choose from the presets below to run the query on a given time inmterval.
  1. Click Next.

Object parameters

  • Object type - Select an object type category: person, vehicle, animal, background or other. Then select an object type from the drop-down list. Person is chosen by default.
  • Class (optional): Some object types may have additional classes available for filtering (such as helmet and gender for person objects). Select any number of them.
  • Name: A name identifying your query. By default, a unique ID is auto-generated, which can be changed here.
  • Description (optional): Describe your Query here.

Click +Add to register your Query, or optionally move on to advanced settings.

Advanced parameters (optional)

Free text search

U-Query is able to further refine results with the help of free text search, by defining additional features of the chosen object type/class. E.g. "person sitting and looking at their phone" or "woman wearing a hat". Note that free text search may include some false positive results, depending on the specific text.

Advanced Settings
  • Minimum confidence (50% by default): This valiue represents the sensitivity threshold of the detector - the minimum value above which objects are considered to be detected. Increasing this will result in less false positives, but may result in some missed detections, and vice versa.
  • Minimum height of object (80px by default): The minimum height of objects, in pixels. Objects smaller than the height defined here will be excluded from the results.
  • Maximum number of results (10 by default): You may adjust the number of results shown in the Results page of your Query.
  • Window size / cooldown (in milliseconds, 5000 by default): The frequency of sampling; the detector will only search for objects once the time set here has passed after the previous detection.