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Thecus VisoGuard 4.0 User Manual

1. In this dialog you can define the control name and image and which actions are to be performed on certain mouse operations and events Actions The possible Actions are e Show live in Observer Client exposes a large live view of the respective camera in the VisoGuard client that runs on the same machine If no client is running on the same machine then noting is happening e Show archive calendar in Observer Client exposes the archive calendar view of the respective camera in the VisoGuard client that runs on the same machine If no client is running on the same machine then noting is happening e Show live stream in LNT opens a window showing a live stream of respective camera in LNT If this action is bound to Mouse over then the window will be automatically closed when the mouse is moved away from the camera icon If this action is bound to Single click or Double click then the window stays until it is closed manually To close all such windows you can select Close all live streams in the View menu e Start Stop continuous recording starts or stops continuous recording of the camera in VisoGuard It actually sets or deletes the Enable interval checkbox in the camera admin s Scheduling dialog Please be aware that there must be at least one continuous recording 89 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual interval for the camera for this to work refer to 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 43 for detail
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3. If you do not yet have a permanent license string for VisoGuard a License dialog appears To continue without a permanent license just push Continue In this case the full functionality may not be available See also 2 7 Introduction the VisoGuard client on page 10 for further details about licensing Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Please note The authentication data transferred between client and server are encrypted with MD5 strong encryption only if you use Java VM 1 4 or newer otherwise unencrypted The administration user admin has the default password admin For security reasons you should change this password please see 4 Managing users on page 29 A guest login is possible only if the guest has been defined on your server which is the factory setting For further details contact your VisoGuard administrator If you have forgotten your password you can mark the Forgot my password checkbox answer the asked question and click OK For more information ask your VisoGuard administrator 2 2 1 What is next lf your VisoGuard server already has cameras configured then you can go to chapter 5 Using the Online monitor on page 34 If you have to setup cameras first then continue with chapter 3 Setting up cameras on page 20 Furthermore because VisoGuard behaves in a context sensitive way you will find that certain menu items are also disabled at certain times Thus for example you cannot remove a camera if there is no c
4. In the camera selection menu of a view port you can also select the option Shuffle Then VisoGuard cyclically switches through all the cameras assigned to the view port Please select Save all view settings from the view Control menu in order to save all settings The next time you log in to VisoGuard all views and view ports will be available again 5 3 Navigating in the Online monitor You have several options for navigating in the Online monitor 36 Select a view from the View selector pop up Select a Round tour from the Round tour selector pop up Use the next previous view buttons to navigate to the previously displayed views Double click in a view port to get a big view of the actually displayed camera in the view port If there is a view defined containing a big view port with the camera then this view will be Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual exposed Otherwise a new temporary view with the camera will be created You can then go back to the previous view by pushing previous view button e Use the quick Camera finder You can just start typing at your keyboard A little Camera finder pop up will show at the lower right corner of the client window and will show a list of cameras with matching names and ids Camera Finder Press ESC to exit You can double click a camera or select it with the keyboard and press ENTER which will expose a big view of the camera which is the same action as a double click in the view
5. Additionally each user can change his own password by following these steps 1 Inthe VisoGuard menu choose Change password 2 Inthe newly opened dialog enter the old current password and the new password twice 3 Push OK to change the password When you login the next time you will have to enter the new password Please note The optional secondary password can only be changed by an VisoGuard administrator with the appropriate privileges 4 8 Working with users from Active Directory or LDAP You can configure your VisoGuard server to import users from an Active Directory AD LDAP server In this case the users user names and passwords are maintained in AD LDAP and users are imported mapped to a user group in VisoGuard The privileges of these users what they are allowed to do in VisoGuard are defined at the VisoGuard user group where they belong to 4 8 1 How VisoGuard and Active Directory LDAP work together When an connection to an Active Directory LDAP server is set up correctly VisoGuard imports users of a matched group in Active Directory LDAP These users are imported to a certain user group in VisoGuard The privileges and camera access rights of the users imported from Active can be defined at the user group in VisoGuard When the VisoGuard server connects the Active Directory LDAP server the first time it loads all matched users into the user group in VisoGuard These users are then cached in VisoGuard no user
6. In addition to defining the weekdays and times you need to specify the Recording format If your camera also supports multiple formats you have several choices for details on streaming formats please refer to 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 6 e JPEG stream is also known as MJPEG where the server stores sequences of JPEG images e MPEG 4 video for MPEG 4 video streams e H 264 video for H 264 video streams e MxPEG video for MxPEG video streams For the MPEG video formats you can additionally select Save audio When you choose any of the MPEG video formats then the video settings that are defined in the camera s Default settings will be taken for recording 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual If you choose JPEG stream you can additionally set the Image quality the Frame rate and the Image size for the archive recording Set the values according to your needs See 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 8 for details on images sizes quality and storage requirements Note Some cameras are only capable of a single picture stream which will constrain the possibility of recording in multiple formats and having different video stream settings in the Online Monitor and the recording Please refer to the document Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Supported Video Sources for information about supported cameras and their streaming Capabilities 9 Fi
7. Please note A zone can trigger certain actions e g when you click with the mouse on it a zone can show all cameras belonging to the zone in the VisoGuard client This for example will either create a new view in the VisoGuard client or map it to an existing view depending on the names of the views and zones Therefore the name of a zone can be of importance Here is how the mapping works for the LNT action Show zone live in Observer Client If there is an VisoGuard view that has the same name as the LNT zone and that also contains all the cameras of the LNT zone then this view is exposed in the VisoGuard client Otherwise a new view is created with the name of the zone Details for zone actions can be found under 13 5 3 Modifying zone control appearance and behavior on page 90 Linking layouts with link fields LNT offers link fields to easily navigate between layouts Link fields can be placed on layouts and are resizable grey areas Clicking on a link field in Navigation mode will open the linked layout Here is how you can link layouts via link fields 1 Drag the Link field from the controls list at the right side and drop it onto your layout Where you drop the zone field control with the mouse will be the first corner of the polygon shape and you can now define its shape by clicking at further corners To finish the link field definition close the polygon shape Alternatively you can create a rectangular link field by pressing
8. Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual User Admin Camera Admin Detection felds PTZ Users Host Admin System informaiton Mame Choose an action Stop Metavis system Details The table shows the connected servers and their state Name shows the name of the server and the VisoGuard version running State shows whether the server is running and if there is a failure the server in the screenshot above is running Ok License shows the license of the VisoGuard server U shows the number of total and in parentheses the number of used up user licenses If the number contains an R then it is a floating license from a remote licensing server C shows the number of total and in parentheses the number of used up camera licenses lf the number contains an R then it is a floating license from a remote licensing server If the number of cameras exceeds the license limit then in parentheses first the number of disabled cameras is shown and then after a slash the number of allowed licensed cameras L shows the license type and the licensed product edition and modules License type P permanent license D demo license Licensed product edition B VisoGuard Basic edition C VisoGuard Core edition E VisoGuard Enterprise edition X VisoGuard Extended edition AS VisoGuard Application service edition Licensed modules ABS ABS transcoding for low bandwidth connections
9. 101 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 102 Rectangle Polygon r Tripwire This tripwire triggers a counting event whenever an object moves from the green area across the red tripwire The tripwire is smart as it only counts objects that have first been detected in the green area and move across It would not count the object if it would first be detected in the non green area then moved across the line into the green and then move across the tripwire from the green to the non green area It also would not double count an object that would have moved across the line twice Hints To count incoming and outgoing people or objects you would create two different tripwires with opposite green areas which would both trigger events You can also use the tripwire to detect objects moving in the wrong direction Please note As indicated 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 97 objects will only be detected after a few frames Therefore an object can move a bit before it is actually detected as object by iCAT Therefore it makes sense to have the green area big enough to allow iCAT time for the object detection If that is not the case it might be possible that quickly moving objects are not detected before they cross the tripwire and therefore would not be counted The ideal settings depend on viewed relative object soeed and iCAT video processing frame rate You can also define when an object is counted
10. 4 Set the basic properties like name and IP address 5 Optionally modify other parameters as needed see 3 2 1 Adding a camera from scratch on page 20 for details 6 Push the Save button at the bottom of the dialog 3 3 Setting up the camera recording archive The configuration of camera recordings is covered in section 6 7 Programming archive recordings on page 43 3 4 Optional Configuring video analytics iCAT The configuration of video analytics with iCAT is covered in chapter 14 Video analytics with iCAT on page 96 3 5 Defining brightness contrast and saturation If you are not satisfied with the brightness contrast or saturation of camera video images then you can modify them For IP cameras and analog cameras there are two different ways of modifying those video parameters e IP cameras Each IP camera has its own setup interface usually available via web browser to define modify the video parameters Please consult the admin setup manual of the IP camera e Analog cameras VisoGuard allows you to define video parameters via the System Admin menu Please see below for details 26 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 3 5 1 Defining video parameters for analog cameras 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Select the camera in the camera tree for which you want to set the image values 3 Press the Next button 4 times starting from basic prope
11. Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual si fi P w Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Document version V2 Release 4 0 1 Published in May 2011 The software described in this manual is licensed under the terms of the Thecus end user license agreement and may only be used in accordance with these terms Copyright Copyright 2003 2011 NETAVIS Software GmbH All rights reserved Thecus and VisoGuard are trademarks of Thecus Technology Corporation All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective holders Thecus Technology Corporation 15F No 79 Sec 1 Sintai 5th Rd Sijhih City Taipei County Taiwan R O C Tel 886 2 2698 1788 Fax 886 2 2698 9098 info thecus com www thecus com Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Contents aU al igets Uo 4 0 a Remesneasnemene ciel an neater a a any creates nee rene nne A ore eran are msnn perenne 5 1 1 The VisoGuard documentation SOU ss cxicdesnssiwiaeccenodsisescantcdsenw lonsaenodcdcaaxashsdeanwicesaadsues feseeeusdnaee 5 12 Whats New Wits Toloa SE ei jvivnacsssoittnacialaauam a a E 5 kS VISOGUGEIC Calta SCCUIIY seseeut stvehneccceroksisiaguatheddamedseuenanoactanacnbatdsagaaadcassdecusencadioasamolcdearaustectae 5 1 4 Video streaming methods ANd compression ccccssesecceeceeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeesessaeeeeeeas 6 2 Starting and operating the VisoGuard client
12. be sure that you have the necessary authorization to make settings If you are not sure please ask your VisoGuard administrator Please note Motion detection for PTZ cameras is problematic since normal movement of the camera will trigger a motion detection event 7 1 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection If you are not already running the VisoGuard client application open your Internet Explorer and log in to your VisoGuard server and your VisoGuard system 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 56 Lo Sl g pa O 00 11 12 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Enabled Type Simple mation detection sensibility identifier MD Sample frequency fps Comment Time between events sec 3 0 lcon Default Pixel change threshold 20 0 Sound Default Pixel change Bos s 0 0 36 94 Save In the camera tree at the left select the camera for which you want to create a motion detection definition In the menu choose Add new definition From the Type menu chose Simple motion detection Select whether you want to create a Rectangle or a Polygon Use the mouse to draw a detection field in the preview area Mark the Enabled checkbox otherwise the detection field is inactive and no detection can occur Actually a detection field must also be assigned to an active motion detection schedule
13. control icon on top of the zone In case of an event this setting defines whether the layout that contains the primary control related to the event should be exposed Defines in which order new events are to be visited When a new event comes in or an existing event is selected the related control blinks or is highlighted This setting defines with what mouse operation the state of the event can be set to seen visited blinking is stopped If this checkbox is marked then only events of mapped cameras will be suggested for automatic visiting If it is unchecked then all events will be suggested Defines the default image size either Fit image or Full size Defines whether new events in the Event list are inserted from the Top or from the Bottom Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 95 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 14 Video analytics with iCAT iCAT is the video analytics toolkit of VisoGuard It provides powerful and easy to configure object detection and tracking mechanisms as well as a statistics module with integration to the event management system EMS iCAT can also interface to 3 party video analysis toolkits and algorithms contact Thecus Technology Corporation Please note Since iCAT and some functions are licensed separately of VisoGuard you need a valid license in order to work with these features See also 10 7 Server system information and restarting on page 72 for details about what license you have
14. see below Assign a name for the field in the Identifier text box e g Movement Optionally you can enter a Comment Please note Usually the Sensitivity should be left at Normal It defines how sensitive or tolerant the detection algorithm is when detecting the change of pixels Modify the setting only when you want the algorithm to be more or less sensitive In the Sample frequency fps field you can specify how often the image is to be checked for changes In the Time between events sec field you can enter the minimum time that must elapse before a following event is triggered This helps to filter out repetitive events Minimum time sec 3 means that after one motion detection event has been triggered at least 3 seconds must pass before another Motion Detection event can be generated 57 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 13 Inthe Pixel change threshold field you can define how many pixels in must change so that a detection event is triggered Pixel change 20 means that 20 of the pixels relative to the previous frame detection cycle must change for a detection to be triggered 14 Optionally you can define a specific event icon and sound for this definition Click on the Icon button to assign a symbol This icon is displayed in the Event list to notify an operator when an event related to this definition occurs Click on the Sound button to assign a specific sound to the definition This sound is p
15. to dark green Se Se PEER SESE EER EEEREREES Also select the playback acceleration by moving the Playback acceleration slider default value is 1 At the slider you can see in parentheses how long the selected time will need for playback at the selected playback acceleration Now click the Playback button B This brings you to the Player view and the images for the selected time span are loaded from the server and then will be replayed with the specified acceleration you can cancel the loading process by pushing the Cancel button Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Calendar Player Archive playback Playback acceleration 500x 00 00 ono Previous timeline selections Analog 1 TB22007 09 26 00 10 32 59 m ET M 16 02 2007 10 51 31 182 CET 16 02 2007 10 27 00 E al be E teo22007 11 32 59 16 02 2007 10 27 00 0 E A A E eooo 11 32 59 n a mje gt In the Playback view you have several possibilities e Automatic or manual fast forward and rewind of recordings e Selection and playback of a time frame time zooming e Synchronous playback of recordings of up to 4 cameras e Export of individual images as well as the selected video sequence 6 2 2 Moving forward and back in the recording Automatic playback By clicking the Playback buttons La or P you can let the recording automatically play forward or back With the Playback Speed slider at the left of the window you can vary the playback
16. 0 User Manual defining views for new user 31 manual recording control 39 navigating in the 36 quick camera finder 37 view port quality settings 37 view settings 37 working with iCAT 112 zooming in a view port 38 49 Overlay painting 17 p PAL 8 pan tilt Zoom 66 Password changing 32 PDAs mobile devices 83 People counting iICAT 100 Playback of archive recordings 46 Port mapping of analog cameras on video server 28 Priority of events 61 sorting event list 61 Privacy mask iCAT 106 Privileges of users 30 Protect archive recordings against deletion 51 PTZ pan tilt zoom 66 automatic routes 70 control with motion detection 58 controlling camera 67 joystick control 70 routes 66 user priority 30 Q QCIF 8 121 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Quality settings changing in view port 37 Quitting the client 19 R Recording 43 See also Archive Release notes 5 Remote servers 79 events 82 monitoring 82 upgrading 82 Restarting and rebooting 75 Round tours 40 RTSP streaming port 77 S Sabotage detection iCAT 103 SAFE format archive export 52 Saturation 26 Scheduling iCAT activities 45 109 Screen resolution minimum for running the client 10 Secondary password for login 29 Security 5 Sensitivity setting ICAT 99 Server network 79 Server parameters 75 Servers administrating 72 information about running 72 load display 72 remote distributed 79 Smart guard function 40 Smar
17. 1 Introduction the VisoGuard client on page 10 If this checkbox is marked then there is only one button in the Online Monitor that switches MPEG and Audio on and off If this checkbox is not marked then you will find 3 buttons for the three functions See also 5 9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio on page 41 In some cases Laws do not allow the transmission or recording of people s voices The criterion often is whether one can recognize a person by listening to its voice Therefore VisoGuard allows anonymizing the audio stream by distorting it If this checkbox is marked then the live and recorded audio will be anonymized distorted The Default settings for MPEG 4 H 264 MxPEG and Default settings for single stream JPEG cameras define the streaming format for the various streaming types These settings will 23 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual be used in the Online Monitor and also for recordings For multi stream JPEG cameras the Default settings for single stream JPEG cameras are of no importance because for each view port in the Online Monitor and also for recording separate formats can be specified Please note In the current version VisoGuard only supports 1 streaming format for MPEG cameras for live viewing and recording Field label Your input Use these settings Usually this checkbox must be set It defines whether the default camera settings are set via VisoGuard or in the camera directly via its own settin
18. CPU overhead are possible with MJPEG streaming Also the transcoding bandwidth limit must be chosen carefully Therefore we suggest e MJPEG streaming format e Limit the transcoding bandwidth to app 70 of the available server client connection bandwidth For connections like Internet connections with heavily varying bandwidth it is much better to use a lower limit than a higher limit With low limits of 256 kbit s or 128 kbit s very good results are possible Some customers have even used 56 kbit s or 30 kbit s with transcoding As indicated above the limits are defined in 10 2 Setting VisoGuard server parameters on page 75 2 6 Exiting the client The VisoGuard client can be exited by choosing Exit from the VisoGuard menu at the main application window You will be asked whether you really want to exit If the menu bar is hidden you can exit the client via the right mouse button menu Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 3 Setting up cameras VisoGuard allows any authorized user to set up cameras in the system Ask your VisoGuard system administrator whether you have such authorization 3 1 Preparations Before you begin to set up a new camera in VisoGuard be sure to have the following information available e Your camera type e lis your camera type supported by VisoGuard Please consult the document Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Supported Video Sources e Are there available licenses for setting up additional cameras e IP address
19. JPEG images 8 21 of Online monitor views 34 PAL NTSC VGA HDTV 34 Audio playback in archive 50 settings 22 working with cams 41 AVI exporting from archive 52 Bandwidth limiting overall outgoing bandwidth of server 77 support for low bandwidth via Transcoding tm 19 Brightness 26 C Calendar in archive 46 Camera access rights for users 31 clone existing camera 26 default settings 22 duplicate existing camera with similar settings 26 groups 27 moving in camera tree 28 multicast streaming for MPEG 22 port mapping on video server 28 privacy mask 106 sabotage detection 103 setup 20 status display LNT 93 video analytics iCAT 95 Camera finder in the Online monitor 37 Camera tree drag and drop cameras 35 how to work with it 35 positioning in the window 18 CIF 8 Client languages 12 locally installed 14 multi window multi screen operation 17 overview of components 17 starting 10 14 support for low bandwidth connections 19 web browser 11 Clone camera 26 Contrast 26 CPU load and streaming formats 7 display of server CPU load 72 for video analytics ICAT 97 Cropped view ports define which part to display 38 D Data integration with external applications 116 Data security 5 Default settings for cameras 22 Deleting windows 18 19 Demo mode license 10 Distributed upgrades of servers 82 DivX exporting from archive 52 Documentation set 5 Drag and drop Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual
20. Mark either Receive event images via FTP or via HTTP depending on what your camera supports This tells VisoGuard to receive in camera events and images from the camera If you already have a defined an active server motion detection schedule for the camera you will get a dialog that tells you that having both server and in camera motion detection at the same time is not possible To continue you have to first disable the server based motion detection schedules in the Scheduling dialog and then you can continue here Optionally you can set the Post recording length sec that defines whether and for how long the VisoGuard server should record camera images in addition to receiving and storing the event pictures pushed by the camera As mentioned above you could want to do that to record the post event images with a high frame rate In such a case set the Frame rate according to your needs Now you also have to tell VisoGuard for how long it should keep the recorded event images both the ones pushed by the camera and the ones additionally recorded by the server Push Previous button at the bottom of the dialog until you reach the Scheduling dialog Below the Time intervals list push the Add button and then choose Camera MD FTP HTTP from the newly created Change pop up menu In the field Requested recording period days hours enter the values that fits your needs Optionally you can also mark the Priority over other cameras if storage
21. a higher priority of 300 For events generated by video analytics triggers you can specify individual event priorities Event lists can also be sorted according to priority User privileges for accessing and handling events In the User admin under the System administration menu you can define for each user some basic event handling privileges For example whether user you can access events at all or what kinds of system events are displayed at the users event list see 4 2 Setting general user privileges on page 30 The number of events stored in the database can be defined in the server parameters see 10 2 Setting VisoGuard server parameters on page 75 8 1 Event list and event details The most actual events are displayed in the Event list Event List big Time wom n e Details 21 lo3vo22011 12 14 37 hoo ems2 User Video admin user has acknowledged evl 1302 2014 12 14 36 ems2 User Video admin user has acknowledged sy 02 i 300 ems2 Connection lost to camera 4 31 E ems2 User Video admin user has acknowledged e1 0 5 Lie ems2 User admin 10 0 0 2 logged in ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 can ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 can lt e 100 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 can ar lt e 100 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 can 11 23 35 22 e 1100 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam 12022011 220734 e ho
22. a remote VisoGuard server on page 79 11 4 Monitoring remote servers You can monitor the status of remote servers in the System information dialog see 10 1 Server system information and restarting on page 72 Before you can do that you have to tell your server to monitor the remote server by checking the option Monitor remote server status see 11 1 Adding and defining a remote VisoGuard server on page 79 11 5 Distributed upgrades When there are several VisoGuard servers in a network upgrading servers to a newer release of VisoGuard one by one can be a very cumbersome and time consuming task In order to ease this task VisoGuard offers an automatic distributed upgrade of all interconnected servers in a network Please refer to the manual Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration for further details 82 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 12 VisoGuard on mobile devices You can access an VisoGuard server also from mobile devices like PDAs and mobile phones This version supports the live viewing of video streams from an VisoGuard server This chapter describes how you can install and run VisoGuard on such mobile devices 12 1 Supported devices Currently VisoGuard allows you to install the mobile client on these systems e Apple iPhone and iPad with OS 3 0 or newer For further details refer to the VisoGuard start page 12 2 Installing the VisoGuard client on a mobile device 12 2 1 Apple iPhone 1 Goto the i
23. analog camera via a video capture card NDS or via a video server specify the port of the capture card or video server to which the camera is connected This setting is only enabled for certain IP cameras that are shipped with different aspect ratios like PAL or NTSC For cameras that are delivered in one standard only the correct value is set automatically and cannot be changed Please select the correct value for your camera If you select a value that does not fit your camera then the image might be distorted Please refer also to 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 8 This option is only relevant if you use a Mobotix camera Set it when you would like to operate the camera in streaming mode If this option is not activated the camera operates in single picture mode In streaming mode MJPEG format the camera delivers higher frame rates than in single picture mode If you activate the streaming mode you also must set the according option in the camera with the Admin tools of the camera If the camera supports encrypted streaming using HTTPS this setting will be enabled It defines whether streaming from the camera is encrypted using HTTPS Please note that encryption needs significantly more CPU resources on the server than unencrypted communication see also 1 3 VisoGuard data security on page 5 This option is only relevant for digital cameras or video servers that 21 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 2
24. and relieve the main CPU In multi screen operation overlay painting of MPEG video streams may result in pink colored view ports if the client is not running on the primary screen of Windows Then you should turn off this feature 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation VisoGuard supports multi window and multi screen operation With clients that have multiple screens connected you can position windows at different screens Here is an example of a client setup with 3 screens Monitor 1 Monitor 2 Monitor 3 Live overview Live alarm view Recording archive incl event list and incl prioritized event list and incl event markers ICAT triggers ICAT statistics diagram The window contents and positions are automatically stored per user and between sessions This means when a user has multiple windows positioned on 3 screens and he exits and then logs in again all the windows on the 3 screens will automatically be restored Please note There can only be one Archive player and this is located in the main window 2 4 1 Creating a new window In the main application window select New window from the Windows menu The window title and the contents of the window can be adapted by choosing Client preferences in the VisoGuard menu see below 2 4 2 Defining what components to display in a window For each window you can define which of these components should be displayed in the window e Online Monitor e Archive player T
25. appropriate Attribute mapping schema The attribute mapping defines what AD attributes are mapped to which VisoGuard attributes Usually these are the mappings For Active Directory Attribute Value Login name tag cn Name tag displayName SMS number tag telephoneNumber Email tag mail The Tag mapping defines further attribute mappings For Active directory the AD group identifier tag must be set to memberOf and Login name tag must be set to cn Push Save Now the users from AD LDAP should be imported to the specified user group in VisoGuard 33 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 5 Using the Online monitor In the Online monitor you can view live streams from cameras that are set up at the VisoGuard server The prerequisite is that you must have authorization to access the Online Monitor see 4 2 Setting general user privileges on page 30 Furthermore you can access only those cameras for which you have access rights see 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 When a new user logs in the first time he will encounter an empty Online monitor waiting for new camera views to be defined Once you have defined your views they will reappear next time you log in You can also have several Online monitors in multiple windows see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 17 Important If you are using a low bandwidth connection between client and server e g via wide area networks it can happen easily that the
26. archive playback video streams kbit s Transcoding bandwidth limit for archive export streams kbit s IP address of network interface NIC for bandwidth limitation Total outgoing bandwidth limit kbit s RTSP streaming port Image database AES encryption O no encryption 1 or Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Description different address e g due to address mapping Per default this address always reflects the IP address of the server You can enter an IP address or a network name URL control is one way to enable third party applications to start actions via URL encoded strings send http GET request to an VisoGuard server The server upon receiving these special URL requests converts and executes them as if they would have been generated internally URL control is only enabled for computers whose IP addresses are entered in this fields comma separated list All other requests are blocked Please refer to the Release Notes for further details on URL control Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing live view streams Zero means no transcoding and no limit for live view video streams Please read 2 5 VisoGuard Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections on page 19 for choosing the best limit values Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing archive playback streams Zero means no transcoding and no limit for archive playback streams Please read 2 5 VisoGuard Transcoding
27. by either selecting Object center point Any point of object or Whole object When you push the Next button you can define additional constraints for the event creation You can limit the counting only to certain object sizes certain aspect ratios and a certain speed Currently those measures are definable in pixels please keep in mind that the resolution iCAT works on is either CIF or QVGA depending on the aspect ratio of the camera Future releases of iCAT will allow for real world measures Zero values in these fields mean that there is no constraint Hint for constraining the object size or speed The size is the area of the object in pixels and the speed is also measured in pixels per second To know what object sizes or soeeds you want to filter it is helpful to watch a few objects passing the triggers and switch on the object markers These markers show the size and speed of the object in pixels These are exactly the same measures that you can use for the trigger Here is an example of an object marker Object ID is 10 object size is 9110 pixels speed is 208 pixels sec 10 11 12 13 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual The section 14 4 1 Displaying iCAT information in the Online monitor and when playing recordings on page 113 shows you how to view object markers In the Identifier text field enter a name for this event trigger An example name for a people counter would be Entrance 1 incoming You can also cho
28. detection Camera failures Events of the user interface L i Camera control Event acknowledgement Serial line plugins 4 lt each of the dialogs it is possible to make multiple selections For example to search for the event types User logged in and User logged out hold down the CTRL key and select these event types with left mouse clicks Allevents System events Informational messages Data change Generic information User logged in User logged out You can also search for events which are acknowledged or not acknowledged by selecting the appropriate check box 63 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 5 After setting different search criteria push the Search button again to display the results By clicking the Next button you can step forward in the result list and with Previous button you can step back 8 2 1 Saving results in an HTML file 1 2 You can also save the search results directly to an HTML file by selecting the Save results in HTML document checkbox Set the Number of records pop up menu to All After clicking the Search button a file dialog will open asking for a file name Enter a file name and choose a location and click Save Now the file is created You can open the file in a normal web browser T NetAVIS Observer II Event listing Microsoft Internet Explorer h fax Extras an pay 7 x ia A A Suchen qr Favoriten a Medien w We
29. drag it to a different location For example when the Online monitor and the Event list are enabled then you can drag the Event list from the default position at the right border of the window to the bottom of the window Events O B al ID Time gt gt rr G e Whether they are floating open when needed or there are new entries and collapsed or hidden otherwise or pinned always shown You can change the state of the Event list or the Camera tree by pinning or unpinning it in the title bar Whether the Event list or the Camera tree should fill the whole window You can maximize the component by pushing the maximize button O When a component is maximized it will occupy the whole space of the window and will automatically resize when you resize the window Thus you can create a window that contains only an Event list After you are done with the modifications deselect Windows gt Enable layout customization The default location for the Event list is the right window border and for the Camera tree that usually only pops up when needed it is the left window border Please note that only the Event list and the Camera tree can be dragged The other components in the window will then change their size accordingly 18 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 2 4 4 Deleting a window In the main application window select Delete window from the Windows menu A Delete window dialog will open offering you the li
30. eingang 1 2 00 00 00 3 00 16 00 4 00 30 00 5 00 45 00 6 01 00 00 F 01 15 00 8 01 30 00 Motion detection 9 01 45 00 Analog 1 40 02 00 00 eingang 11 02 15 00 12 02 30 00 43 02 45 00 144 03 00 00 45 0315 00 16 03 30 00 17 03 45 00 48 04 00 00 19 04 15 00 20 04 30 00 21 04 45 00 22 05 00 00 23 05 15 00 24 05 30 00 25 05 45 00 26 06 00 00 27 06 15 00 28 06 30 00 29 06 45 00 30 07 00 00 31 07 15 00 Paor 30 00 z ija im ra 65 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 9 Working with PTZ cameras VisoGuard features the control of PTZ cameras pan tilt zoom Note To configure and work with PTZ cameras you need the corresponding user privileges and camera access rights see 4 2 Setting general user privileges on page 30 and 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 If you find that you do not have the authorizations you need please contact your VisoGuard administrator 9 1 Setting up a PTZ camera Setting up a PTZ camera is the same procedure as setting up a camera without PTZ functionality 3 Setting up cameras on page 20 The user must possess the user specific camera authorizations see 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 to permit PTZ access 9 2 Defining fixed PTZ positions Choose PTZ from the System administration menu This opens the PTZ dialog From the camera tree select the PTZ camera whose PTZ positions you want to program I
31. for low bandwicdth client server connections on page 19 for choosing the best limit values Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing archive export streams Zero means no transcoding and no limit for archive export Please read 2 5 VisoGuard Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections on page 19 for choosing the best limit values IP address of the network interface NIC for which bandwidth limitation is applied If zero then the bandwidth limit is applied in total for all available network interfaces If transcoding is switched on then it will only be applied to connections of this NIC If you enter the keyword NUS instead of the IP address of the NIC then only traffic to a NUS VisoGuard user server is transcoded Local client connections to this server will not be transcoded It also works this way if the server has only 1 NIC for all traffic to cameras local clients and a NUS Total bandwidth limit for all outgoing connections of the specified network interface NIC Port number generally used for RTSP communication e g for some MPEG cameras Please note that modifying the value here does not change the RTSP port setting in the cameras The cameras need to be configured separately for the RTSP port This defines whether the image data are encrypted with T1 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Field label 2 encryption Description AES Value 0 switches off encryption default Enteri
32. if it starts moving again it will be detected as new object Defines how long a detected object that stopped is tracked before it is dismissed by iCAT i e no longer treated as object but essentially becoming background After an object is being dismissed by iCAT if it starts moving again it will be detected as new object This defines at what frame rate the iCAT algorithms operate If the objects you want to track move very quickly across your camera view you want to improve the speed If they move slowly across the camera view you can decrease the speed See also 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 97 Defines when how much a stopped object may move away from its stopping position before iCAT detects it to move again 8 Push Next to get to the Statistics settings for the tracking region Here you can define what Statistics iCAT should collect Later on these object tracking statistics can be visualized see 14 4 2 Displaying Visual Statistics on page 114 Currently the following measurements are available Object counts speeds sizes also for stopped objects 9 Push Save to create the tracking region Later on you can modify the tracking region settings 100 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 10 If you did not yet define the scheduling for iCAT activities then after you save the first iCAT definition for a camera you will be prompted for whether you want to edit the scheduling now Click on
33. in picture icon drawn when the assignment is successfully done Jump to a predefined PTZ position and follow PTZ routes 1 To spota camera to a predefined PTZ position click on the right arrow at the lower right corner of the view port and select a position from the list see 9 2 Defining fixed PTZ positions on page 66 2 To automatically follow a predefined PTZ route choose it from PTZ gt Select PTZ route in the view port control menu of the PTZ camera 3 Inthe view port control menu of the PTZ camera click PTZ gt Select PTZ route gt Stop route to stop control of the PTZ camera Stop PTZ control You can stop PTZ control by pushing the IF button or deselect PTZ gt Activate PTZ control in the view port control menu Note Please do not forget to stop PTZ control otherwise other users cannot assume control When you end the VisoGuard client all PTZ control is automatically released For further details on user specific PTZ priorities and timeouts please refer to 4 1 Creating a new user account on page 29 9 4 2 Controlling PTZ cameras with motion detection events It is possible to automatically control PTZ cameras with motion detection events Please refer to 7 7 4 Controlling PTZ cameras with server based motion detection events on page 58 9 4 3 Scheduling PTZ routes It is possible to schedule time intervals for PTZ camera to follow predefined routes Note Before you can schedule a route you first must define the rou
34. license At this dialog just push the Continue button to operate VisoGuard in the demo mode See 10 1 Server system information and restarting on page 72 for how to display the current license of your server Different clients You can choose among these VisoGuard clients operating systems and platforms VisoGuard client OS and platform Supported functionality Locally installed client MS Windows 7 XP Vista etc All l l No audio layout navigation and Linux Unix also client on server PTZ Joysticks Mac OS X additionally no MPEG streaming MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Standard web browser MS Windows 7 XP Vista etc No layout navigation and Joysticks for PTZ control Linux Unix No audio layout navigation and PTZ Joysticks Mac OS X additionally no MPEG streaming MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Mobile client Apple iPhone and iPad Online viewing only Please be aware that some functions like Layout Navigation and running SAFE export files may only be available on the MS Windows platform This chapter describes how to start the VisoGuard client on a desktop PC If you want to run VisoGuard on a mobile device please refer to 12 VisoGuard on mobile devices on page 83 The minimum screen resolution for running the VisoGuard client is 1024x768 pixels Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 2 1 1 Advanced client technology The VisoGuard uses advanced technologies to ease the operation of clients on MS Windows platforms Lazy lo
35. lifetime sec Video processing fps Tolerance radius for stopped object pix Your input Enable this setting if the camera is an indoor camera Indoor setting usually is best for rooms not bigger than 10x10m and objects not farther away than 15m Disable this check box for outdoor environments Experiment with this setting if the detection tracking quality is not ideal Enable this setting if the camera is overhead mounted and downward looking This will improve object separation and the accuracy of object counting In our example above the camera is an indoor camera and mounted overhead downward looking Usually this setting should be left at Normal Only if you are not satisfied with the object detection quality or behavior you can try to modify this setting lf you want a sharper object detection and separation you can set the Sensitivity to High or Very high Also for example if you want to detect very small objects you can improve the sensitivity The Sensitivity also influences how fast new objects are detected Higher Sensibility means quicker object detection lower means slower detection For environments that are very noisy visually and that cause too many objects to be detected the Sensitivity can be set to Low or Very low Defines how long a detected object is tracked before it is dismissed by iCAT i e no longer treated as object but essentially becoming background After an object is being dismissed by iCAT
36. live streaming via the Online Monitor or you can access the archive If you have the appropriate administrator rights you can also modify camera settings like PTZ scheduling or motion detection 11 2 1 Mounting cameras of another server 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 80 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual In the menu select Mount remote camera or group Select from Known remote machines menu item this remote VisoGuard host from where you want to import cameras Now the basic data of this remote VisoGuard host are shown again hostname IP address By clicking on Camera on remote host selection dialog the whole camera tree from the selected remote host appears and you can select a single camera or group to be imported e g PTZ camera on remote host netavis hu C T bbchipes al Law H16 C digit AWF 2420 hosszukas nev kamerax we PTZ a posta LS aF pana a 210eske a ujformveres210eske ae PTZ Ic Hicap aF H aF HZ2 af H3 aF H4 aF H5 ar HE ar HT ar He ar H9 a H10 a H11 a H 12ccc ar H 13 ar H14 ar H15 aF H 16 coool E Add camera Cancel Confirm your selection by clicking on Add camera button Now your camera tree shows this imported camera or group in bold with the name of the remote server in brackets e g PTZ netavis hu If the remote server is not reachable the mounted cameras are not shown in the tree
37. of 10 If the low priority cameras reach a level of 10 then the storage management process starts truncating the archives of the high priority cameras as well Anyway this should never happen in a normal case and Is only possible if the storage space Is totally insufficient for holding the programmed recordings Since the storage management process considers recording time and not recording space for distributing the available space it happens that the relatively small recording space of a camera witha low recording frame rate is truncated in the same proportion like the relatively big recording space of a camera with a high recording frame rate Caution Please be careful when you set the Priority over other cameras flag since if storage space is short VisoGuard truncates the archives of all other cameras in favor of this camera If available storage space is much too short relative to the requested storage periods of all cameras this can lead to strongly truncated archives 6 2 Playback of archive recordings VisoGuard features a multitude of powerful functions for working with archives 6 2 1 Selecting the camera and the playback period 1 Go to the main window and choose the Archive player if the Archive player is not available then perhaps it is disabled in the client preferences see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 17 Either the Camera tree appears immediately or you have to push the Select camera bu
38. or when an Object stops in field You can also define when an event is triggered by either selecting Object center point Any point of object or Whole object 103 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 10 11 In the field Min time for stopping staying inside Sec you can enter a minimum time required for an object that either stops or stays inside a field before an event is triggered When you push the Next button you can define additional constraints for the event trigger You can limit the counting only to certain object sizes certain aspect ratios and a certain speed Currently those measures are definable in pixels please keep in mind that the resolution iCAT works on is either CIF or QVGA depending on the aspect ratio of the camera Zero values in these fields mean that there is no constraint Hint for constraining the object size or speed The size is the area of the object in pixels and the speed is also measured in pixels per second To know what object sizes or soeeds you want to filter it is helpful to watch a few objects passing the triggers and switch on the object markers These markers show the size and speed of the object in pixels These are exactly the same measures that you can use for the trigger Here is an example of an object marker Object ID is 10 object size is 9110 pixels speed is 208 pixels sec The section 14 4 1 Displaying iCAT information in the Online monitor and when playing recordings on page 113
39. port The behavior of the action can be customized see document Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Customizing 5 4 Modifying view port settings VisoGuard allows you to set various options including video quality of either single view ports or all view ports in the current view at once The settings of a single view port can be modified via the view port s control menu that appears in the upper right corner of a view port when you move the mouse pointer over the view port The view port control menu offers the following options 5 4 1 Adding and removing cameras Cameras can be added and removed with the Add camera and Remove camera menu entries Please refer to section 5 2 Selecting cameras on page 35 for more details 5 4 2 Controlling PTZ cameras The PTZ menu allows PTZ control and is enabled for PTZ cameras see 9 4 1 Controlling PTZ cameras in the Online monitor on page 67 5 4 3 Setting video parameters The Set video parameters menu offers the following options Set streaming defines how the camera images should be streamed The available options depend format on your camera and your setup of the cameras inside VisoGuard see 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 Please refer also to 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 6 for further details on streaming formats Set image sets the quality of the streamed images by modifying the compression rate The quality options are High
40. recording will be needed For single stream JPEG cameras this value defines the maximum possible frame rate In the Online monitor and for recording lower frame rates can be selected GOP size For MPEG streams defines the how many frames are sent and stored in a GOP group of pictures One GOP is an integral data packet that is transmitted and recorded Our default value is 10 which means that there is 1 reference frame frame and 9 difference frames P frames A bigger GOP size means a higher compression rate but also a somewhat lower quality and a bigger delay between a real scene and its viewed images which is relevant e g for live viewing in the Online Monitor We think that a GOP size of 10 is optimal for most case which dependent on camera model covers a time between 0 5 1 sec 24 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Field label Your input Bandwidth limit Kbps This setting limits the maximum bandwidth in kilobits per second for the transmission of MPEG streams between the camera and the server AS a consequence also the bandwidth between the server and the clients is thus limited and also the required storage in the archive is influenced limited If this value is zero then the bandwidth is not limited This actually is a setting in the camera The camera always optimizes for the desired image quality and will sacrifice frame rate in favor of quality in the case the bandwidth would exceed the supplied limit F
41. space o Custom aspect ratio here you can freely define an N M aspect ratio The setting Stretch image to fit into view port selected by default defines whether a camera image can be stretched to fit into the view port This may cause distorted images for aspect ratios that do not fit the current view port aspect ratios The setting Crop image to fit into view port defines whether a camera image can be cropped to fit into the view port This may cause that some parts of the image are not visible in the view port In the section 5 4 Modifying view port settings on page 37 you can define what part of the cropped camera image is to be shown in the view port Please select an aspect ratio that fits most of your cameras you plan to show in the view Selecting an improper aspect ratio can lead to unused space on the screen Press OK to acknowledge your input 3 In accordance with the selection above VisoGuard creates a new view that might look as follows your view may have a different number of view ports depending on what you selected 34 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual View control Next previous view View Round tour menu selector selector Event list View port control menu M OT M2011 0 Object stopped in orouzot e Object stopped in 177042011 t gt Object stopped in View port Status bar The view ports fill the central part of the window and each view port has its own view port controls At
42. the Yes button if you want to configure the scheduling now refer to section 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 for further information Click on the No button if you do not wish to schedule the recording or if you want to do that later Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 You can also choose a specific Icon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 2 You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 8 Handling events on page 61 3 The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow you to selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 14 3 2 Defining an event trigger for people and object counting Smart Tripwire Once yo
43. the event recording that triggered the event a replay is only available if the camera has been configured record on the event e Go to Archive player opens the Archive player and starts a playback of the event recording 62 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual e Previous loads the previous event e Next loads the next event e Acknowledge and next acknowledges the event and loads the next event e Acknowledge acknowledges the event and close the dialog e Cancel closes the dialog 8 2 Searching in the event database When you choose Event search from the Events menu the Event search dialog appears Select the Time filter according to your needs Push Search to display the results You can further constrain the search by setting values for Event type Name of camera Name of user or Event ID from to For some values an appropriate dialog will open e g the Event selection dialog pe 1 amp Al events B System events Informational messages Data change Generic information User logged in User logged out B System malfunction messages Connection to host is lost Connection to host is restored Differences against settings Lower image saving frequency Lower motion detection frequer Disk state change messages L amp Disk failure Generic system malfunction failure Camera specific messages B State change events Change of the input port Image content change L Motion
44. the right side of the window is the Event list which is explained in 8 Handling events on page 61 Choose Save all view settings from the menu in order to save all settings for your current user The next time you log on to VisoGuard all views will then be available again If you neglect to save all changes are lost when you exit the application Please note All view settings will be stored also quality and fps settings of view ports New views will be stored automatically without the need to save manually 5 2 Selecting cameras 1 In the view port push the Add camera button Please note that you first have to set up a camera before you can select it in one of the view ports see 3 Setting up cameras on page 20 This opens the camera tree Select a camera from the newly opened camera tree 35 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual ae Cameras You can either o select a camera push the Select button or o double click on a camera to add it to the view port where you pushed Add camera or o drag and drop a camera to the view port of your choice Proceed in the same way with additional view ports in your view You can assign multiple cameras to each view port However since you can only view one camera image in each view port VisoGuard lets you manually switch between cameras by clicking on the camera selection menu at the upper left corner of the view port Panasonic NP472 analog ix AXIS 2130 i A Fo AXIS 2100
45. then the settings are enabled Note You can create multiple iCAT intervals for different setups at different times For each interval proceed as described here Check the assigned iCAT definitions to this interval via the Assigned iCAT definitions popup menu at the right side of the dialog Per default all available iCAT definitions for this camera are assigned If you do not want that you can remove them now by deselecting the definition that you do not want in this interval You can also define whether something should be recorded at an event triggered by one of the assigned iCAT definitions For that you have a full set of options to set which are described in 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 43 In addition to the parameters for continuous timed recordings you can specify a Pre event frame rate fps which can differ from that after the event defined by Frame rate fps With Pre Post event recording sec you can specify how long before and after the event you want to record Please note If there is an active continuous recording in MPEG format it does not make sense to have any Pre post event recording sec set for the event based recording This is because MPEG recording is only done in one quality See also below for further considerations on pre and post event recording iCAT events for this camera are only stored in the Event database and only appear on the Taskbar if the flag Save event in Event list is swi
46. time period Especially if you have selected a long time period in the Calendar the motion detection can take a lot of time As mentioned above you can always stop a running archive motion detection While the motion detection is running the detected motions are displayed in the hit list sorted by the time in which the motion occurred In our example we have 2 hits Pre Post alarm sec 1 l e ar 222007 13 25 24 Bt Fo 22007 13 26 25 You can replay the events by just selecting the event with the mouse The playback time before and after the event can be defined by the Pre Post event sec fields You can change the values according to your needs Please note that there must be archived pre and post event recordings available in order to be replayed 9 You can step through the events by pushing the Previous 4 and Next buttons 55 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 7 Working with simple motion detection Please note Since release R1 12 VisoGuard offers powerful video analysis functions with iCAT This chapter describes the simple motion detection features that were present before R1 12 and that are now a part of the iCAT toolbox Simple motion detection is based on a detection of changed pixels between video frames while iCAT offers intelligent object detection and tracking For more details on ICAT refer to 14 Video analytics with iCAT on page 96 VisoGuard offers two mechanisms for simple motion detection e Vi
47. up a new camera this dialog will be quite empty 4 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group Click the Add button to add a schedule slot to the Time Intervals list 6 Click the Change button and choose Continuous recording Now the Scheduling dialog shows the settings for configuring continuous recording a 39 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 7 Now you can define the days and times for the recordings You can activate individual days or with the All button the whole week at once Select hours and minutes from the popup matrix If you want that recording can only be started manually then make sure that the Enable interval checkbox is disabled Note When a user pushes the manual recording button in the Online monitor actually the Enable interval checkbox is toggled This causes the recording to either start ort stop 8 Setall the recording options as described in 6 7 7 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 43 9 Click on Save to save your settings 5 6 2 Manually controlling recordings in the Online monitor When everything is set up as described above then for the enabled user and camera a manual recording button is shown in any view port displaying the camera Ares ABS S fps 96 kbps E You can switch recording on and off by pushing the manual recording button The recording state is shown by the color a strong red dot means recording is on otherwise recording is off Please note For ti
48. video streams cannot pass through the connection fast enough which results in bad frame rates and slow responsiveness of the client In such a case you should use the Transcoding feature of VisoGuard See 2 5 VisoGuard Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections on page 19 for further details 5 1 Creating a new view VisoGuard lets you create an unlimited number of named views Each of these views can contain up to 100 camera view ports 1 Choose Create new view either from the empty Online monitor or from the Control menu to open the Create new view dialog 2 You can now choose the layout for your view from predefined templates and you also can define an arbitrary matrix of up to 10 x 10 views A new dialog is opened asking for the name of the view and the aspect ratio for the view ports The Name of view is shown in the view selector at the top of the screen Please note that you can also create a view hierarchy by using colons between the names In the example above we create a new view in the group called Main Building with a name First Floor There might also be a view called Second Floor or Third Floor The Aspect ratio pop up defines the aspect ratio of the view ports in the view o Fixed aspect ratios PAL NTSC VGA double VGA or HDTV 16 9 o Fill available space This is the default setting and will adapt the view port size and hence the aspect ratio to fill the available
49. view click the Export button 2 to open the Export dialog Choose Current image JPEG from Export format Enter a file name for the image to be saved Mark the first checkbox if you want to overwrite a file of the same name that might exist When you click OK a file dialog will be opened asking where on your client computer you to want to save the file Select the location and confirm Now you can use the exported file 6 3 2 Exporting an archive recording in AVI DivX format 1 2 3 In the Archive player select a camera for the export In the Player view or in the Calendar view click the Export button BV to open the Export dialog You have two AVI options for Export format e AVI all images This exports a video sequence with all the frames of the currently selected time frame regardless of the Playback acceleration seiting e AVI Subsampled movie This exports the time lapse playback with the settings of the Playback acceleration slider E g if you have selected a Playback acceleration of 3 your exported file will be roughly a third of the size of an AVI all images export See also 6 2 1 Selecting the camera and the playback period on page 46 Enter the file name of video to be exported Mark the first checkbox if you want to overwrite a file of the same name that might exist When you click OK a file dialog will be opened asking where on your client computer you to want to save the file Once you select the location a
50. 14 1 iCAT highlights 96 iCAT works with any camera that can deliver an MJPEG stream this covers also analog cameras that are connected via a video server or directly connected to a video grabber card in the VisoGuard server ICAT is easy to configure and setup and it works in difficult situations also with extreme camera perspectives lt offers flexible scheduling of iCAT definitions depending on date and time Thus you can have different setups for weekdays and weekend as well as day and night The Smart Tripwire function for people and object counting prevents wrong and double counting and works even with the most difficult entrance situations C Rectangle Polygon V Tripwire Toggle The Smart Tripwire also allows detecting wrong direction movements of people and objects Powerful and robust object tracking and event triggering can be constraint to object sizes speeds and other properties Event statistics can be exported to Excel XLS for further processing All iCAT detection annotations are available for live streams and in archived recordings Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual e Seamless integration with the VisoGuard event management system EMS and other VisoGuard functions Additionally iCAT offers camera sabotage detection and lighting change detection e iCAT algorithms have been tuned for the highest performance and least burden on the server 14 2 Basic iCAT concepts ICAT basically consis
51. 2 Field label enabled Your input support 2CIF resolution to reduce the interlace effect Please refer to the camera s documentation Push Save to create the new camera Select the newly created camera again in the camera tree and then push the Next button at the bottom This invokes the Default settings dialog that lets you define the default image and audio settings for your camera To modify values choose Modify selected camera or group menu Fields for Basic video and audio settings Field label Multi stream allowed Allow JPEG streaming Allow MPEG 4 streaming Your input Some cameras are capable of providing multiple video streams in parallel This can be helpful for example when online viewing and recording is to be done in different formats or for optimizing iCAT video analytics performance see 7 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 6 for a general discussion about multi streaming Usually MJPEG cameras can deliver several MJPEG streams while MPEG MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG cameras deliver only 1 MPEG stream some camera types can deliver several MJPEG streams in addition to the MPEG stream If this option is not selected then only 1 video stream will be pulled from the camera regardless of how many different formats would be needed If it is selected then multiple streams will be pulled Also consider the following checkboxes that define which formats can be pulled from the camera Please no
52. Asia Tehran GMT 3 5 NET Asia Yerevan GMT 4 PLT Asia Karacht GMT 5 IST Asta Calcutta GhIT 5 5 BST Asia Dacca GTH Yol Asia Saigon GwIT CTT Asiafshanghat GwiT 3 JST Asia Tokyo GMT 3 ACT Australia Darwin GMT 3 5 AET Australia Sydney GMT 10 ool PaciticGuadalcanal GhIT 11 NST Pacitic Suckland GHIT 12 Defines the time after which the message Camera not responding appears in the Online Monitor Defines the number of retries after which the server raises a camera not reachable event The Timeout for IP cameras sec multiplied by this retry count gives the number of seconds after which an event is generated when an IP camera is unreachable Defines the time after which the guest user is forced to logout If the value is 0 then the guest is never forced to logout Defines the time after which an event Connection lost to server is generated and the cameras mounted from that server disappear from the camera tree only the root element of the mounted camera tree remains visible painted in red This setting is only important for IP cameras that must actively access the server e g for FTP upload with in camera motion detection and only when the server is not accessible by the cameras at its set IP address but at a Field label List of IP addresses from which URL control is enabled Transcoding bandwidth limit for live view video streams kbit s Transcoding bandwidth limit for
53. LNT Layout navigation tool OPC iCAT object tracking RAO removed and abandoned object detection SB camera sabotage detection SNAP SNAP XML integration interface 73 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 74 For further information about licensing please refer to the manual Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration Archive shows the sum of fps and Kbytes per second of archiving on that host Monitor shows the sum of fos and Kbytes per second of all logged in users Please note that you usually only see the status of your server If you want to monitor the status of other VisoGuard servers as well you have to make other servers known to your server please refer to 11 Working with interconnected VisoGuard servers on page 79 To show the details of a server double click an entry or select a server in the table and then choose Details from the System menu Now you see detailed information for the selected server User Admin Camera Admin Motion Detection PTZ Users HostAdmin System information netavis 1 6 5 65 130 Partition ctr 1 dew 0 ctr 1 dew 1 ctrl 2 dew 0 ctrl 2 dev 1 ctr O dev 0 18 01 2006 23 06 36 CET Back z admin ae i PE im ol m Here you see the hard disk partitions and their state Partition ctrl shows the number of the hard disk controller dev shows the hard disk number on the controller On the screen dump we have 5 disks on 3 contr
54. Map your cameras 1 From the list of controls at the right side drag a camera control icon with the mouse onto the layout and drop it there A camera selection dialog opens automatically Choose the camera and push OK Now you have mapped the camera to your camera icon Repeat the above step for other cameras 86 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual You can delete a camera by selecting it with the mouse by choosing Delete from the right mouse button pop up menu Defining zones LNT allows you to group several cameras on a layout into so called zones that can have arbitrary polygon shapes Cameras belong to a zone as long as they are positioned inside the boundaries of the zone You can place an arbitrary number of zones onto a layout Here is how you can create a zone 1 Select a layout from the layout hierarchy 2 Drag the Zone field with the mouse from the controls list at the right side and drop it onto your layout Where you drop the zone field control with the mouse will be the first corner of the polygon shape and you can now define the zone shape by clicking at further corners To finish the zone definition close the polygon shape Alternatively you can create a rectangular zone by pressing the CTRL key while moving the mouse 3 Per default the zones will be named Zone 1 Zone 2 and so on You can rename and delete a zone via the right mouse button pop up menu Zones can be moved by dragging them with the mouse
55. Medium and Low Refer to 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 8 for details on these values Set image size sets the image size of the streamed images The available size options are camera specific Please refer to your camera s manual Please note that for MPEG cameras you cannot change the size of streamed images The sizes of streamed MPEG Set frame rate sets the frame rate of the video stream The options are Max fps various fps and fpm values and Stop 37 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Set camera l is as Si l name defines the position where the camera name is displayed in the view port appearance Rendering defines which scaling algorithm will be used when images need to be scaled to fit preference the available view port space In the Optimized for speed means that the scaling is done with a faster algorithm that may cause lines to be not so smooth Optimized for quality means that the scaling is done with a more CPU intensive anti aliasing which causes straight lines to be smoother These settings can be modified all at once for all view ports in the current view via the Set parameters of all view ports from the view Control menu Holding down the CTRL key while selecting any of the Set parameters of all view ports commands will modify all view ports of all views not just the current view 5 4 4 Controlling video analysis iCAT display The iCAT menu offers various options for displaying iCAT relate
56. Tunes Store and search for NETAVIS 2 Install the VisoGuard application on your iPhone 12 3 Running the VisoGuard client on a mobile device 12 3 1 Apple iPhone 1 Start the VisoGuard iPhone client 2 Connect to an VisoGuard server and login 3 When you get the camera tree tap on a camera to show the live stream 4 To zoom a camera view in and out in pinch your fingers together or apart You can also double tap tap twice quickly to zoom in then double tap again to zoom out 83 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 13 Working with Layout Navigation VisoGuard offers powerful layout navigation features that allow you to navigate based on layouts floor plans and also other images In this chapter you learn how to use the layout navigation features Please note Since Layout navigation is licensed separately of VisoGuard you need a valid license in order to work with these features See also 10 1 Server system information and restarting on page 72 for details about what license you have 13 1 Basic concepts and how it works The VisoGuard layout navigation tool LNT allows you to define a hierarchy of graphical layouts that correspond to various aspects of your physical environment section 13 4 7 Planning your layout hierarchy on page 85 provides details on how to plan the hierarchy Layouts that belong together and other related settings can be grouped together in so called projects Depending on the user rights several user
57. VisoGuard server see next section Click on the Next button Now you see the Server Parameters dialog Following settings are available Field label Description Event storage period days Defines how many days events are stored Any events that are older than these days will be deleted from the event database Max number of events stored on Defines how many events can be stored in the event server database For each event more than the defined max number of events the oldest event will be deleted Please note that both settings the storage period and the max number of events together constrain the event database Server timezone abbreviation Defines the server timezone Available values are 15 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 76 Field label Timeout for IP cameras sec Retry count for IP cameras after which an event is generated Maximum login time for the guest user sec Timeout for server server communication sec Server network address for camera access Description GMT Greenwich Wean Time CET Central European Time shiT 1 MIT PaciicfApia GT l 11 HST Hawaiian Standard Time GhIT 10 Aol America Anchorage shT 9 PST Pacific GMIT 8 MST Mountain GHIT CST Central GhMT 6 EST Eastern GhIT 5 PRT America Puerto Rico GhT 4 CNT America Sst Johns GhT 3 5 AGT America Buenos Aires GhIT 3 ART AfricafCaira GHIT 2 EET Evropelstanbul GhiT 2 EAT AfricafAddis Ababa GMT 3 MET
58. a system with iICAT on page 97 Continuous and event based recording at the same time If the continuous recording has the same frame rate quality like the post event recording then only continuous recording is done and the recording calendar is marked with the events If continuous recording is done at a lower frame rate or different quality then the stream will be restarted with the post event frame rate und quality in the case of an event 112 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual iCAT processing will be done with continuous recording frames scaled down in size and or frame rate if necessary Pre alarm setting has no relevance in this case 14 4 Working with iCAT In this section you will learn about e Watching iCAT information live in the Online monitor and also when replaying recordings e Displaying Visual Statistics in the Online monitor e Generating reports on iCAT events like people counting and stopped objects 14 4 1 Displaying iCAT information in the Online monitor and when playing recordings For each camera that has active iCAT schedules enabled you can display additional iCAT information like object markers and bounding boxes and event trigger fields in the Online monitor and also when playing back recordings Here is an example of additional iCAT information displayed Trma an b objekt stoppt auf teppich GOH Of 0 T 1473 k f wi counter qe Ble 4 mle 2 Be 13 aes Wa To choose what iCAT information to
59. ading client technology VisoGuard clients both browser based and locally installed only load the needed application components from the server on demand when they are needed This saves time at startup and also bandwidth It also eases the management and upgrading of clients Libraries for one version are downloaded only once and are now stored locally on the client machine The path is lt user s home directory gt netavisLibs lt version gt e g D Documents and Settings user netavisLibs 1 9 0 110 200 Automatic client upgrading Whenever the VisoGuard server is upgraded to a new version the clients are automatically upgraded too This is happening transparently to the user The same client will still be able to work with older server versions see next point Starting with release 1 9 the client application has to be installed only once and every further VisoGuard version will be seamlessly accessible without having to manually upgrade the client Different versions between servers and clients Starting with release 1 9 VisoGuard clients can connect to servers running different versions release 1 9 or newer without the need to install clients matching the servers versions As asummary VisoGuard clients download libraries for one version only once share the same libraries for both browser based applet and installed client application can connect to servers having different versions automatically upgrade themsel
60. ailure provide his cell phone number Please insert a full international number starting with a Example 43 123 456 7890 Please note that an SMS sending device has to be connected to the VisoGuard server for this feature to work Refer to the manual Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration for information about supported devices and how to connect and setup them If the user is to receive an e mail in the event of an alarm or failure provide his e mail address Specify the preferred language for this user Defines whether this user should be logged in automatically when nobody else logs at the login panel in for 1 minute This option can be enabled for only one user at a time Defines the relative PTZ priority between users A user with higher priority can take away PTZ control from a user with lower priority Please note The automated PTZ actions started by the event manager and scheduled routes have priority 4 Therefore users with priority 1 to 3 will be overridden by automatic PTZ actions whereby users with priority 5 to 10 can override automatic PTZ actions but will not be interrupted by them Maximum allocation time after which a PTZ camera is automatically released Zero means no limit When a user has taken PTZ control and is inactive for a certain amount of time the PTZ camera is freed automatically after this timeout Zero means no timeout Push Next to go the Privileges dialog Here set t
61. al Please note For sabotage detection an object tracking region is NOT needed When initializing the camera for sabotage detection please make sure that the camera has the correct focus setting and that the scenery and brightness is stable Here are the steps for installing an iCAT based sabotage detection 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Choose acamera and in the menu select Add new definition 3 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Sabotage detection which will expose the configuration settings 4 Select any of the three sabotage detection types 5 Inthe Identifier text field enter a name for this sabotage detection 6 Push Save to save your definition Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 74 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated Background information on sabotage detection algorithms Sabotage detection uses three detector algorithms to generate events for camera moved defocused and covered The camera movement detector tries to locate a couple of strong has high contrast points across the entire picture Then it searches fo
62. ales the image sizes down to QVGA In case of an event alarm the video stream format is not changed Advantage same images for pre post event recordings No delay between pre and post event recording Disadvantage CPU load is bigger since images need to be scaled down for iCAT analyzing Event based recording for iCAT in MPEG formats MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG The majority of MPEG cameras cannot deliver multiple MPEG streams with different formats Only 1 stream is delivered from the camera Therefore you need to set the default frame rate to at least the detection frame rate you need for iCAT see Default settings in 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 e There is no pre event recording recording time is 0 VisoGuard obtains a QVGA MJPEG stream from the camera and runs iCAT analyzing on it In the case of an event the streaming format is switched to MPEG and recording is started Advantage minimal overhead on server CPU Disadvantage Depending on the camera there can be a small delay caused by the camera needed to switch from the pre event streaming format MJPEG to the post event MPEG format e There is pre event recording recording time is bigger than 0 VisoGuard obtains the MPEG stream from the cameras and also does iCAT based on tt Recording is also done with this stream Please note that iCAT based on MPEG stream needs more CPU power on the server see also 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up
63. ame that you want to give your camera This is the name by which you will select or display this camera e g camera 2 Comment Here you can add text that describes your camera 20 Field label Time zone Camera type Name of camera admin Pwd of camera admin Camera IP address Camera server port Aspect ratio Streaming mode Mobotix only Use HTTPS encryption Non interlaced mode Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Your input Select the time zone of your camera s location e g CET fora camera installed in Vienna Specify the type of camera by selecting it from the camera pop up menu Important If you want to connect an analog camera via a video server then select the type of the video server from the menu If you connect an analog camera to a video capture card directly in the VisoGuard server then select NDS VisoGuard Digitizer Server as your camera type If the camera needs authentication for administrating then enter the user name of the camera administrator here Enter the password of the administrator account of the camera only if used Specify the IP address or network name of your camera or video server If you supply a network name you must have access to a domain name server DNS that resolves the name to an IP address Even dynamic DNS names like dyndns can be used This field is not needed for analog cameras connected directly via a video capture card NDS If you are adding an
64. amera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 2 You can also choose a specific icon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 8 Handling events on page 61 The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow you to selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 14 3 8 Defining removed abandoned object detection iCAT offers to detect removed and abandoned objects in a defined region Please note For removed abandoned object detection an object tracking region is NOT needed Be careful with the size of the region since a greater size will cause a more CPU overhead on the server Here are the steps 1 108 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dial
65. amera to remove Thus in different contexts the same menu might look quite different at different times menu entries and buttons in grey are disabled and in black are enabled 2 3 Working with the installed VisoGuard client Alternatively to starting the VisoGuard client from a web browser you can also install the Java client application locally on your machine Some functions are only available in the installed client see 2 7 Introduction the VisoGuard client on page 10 for details 2 3 1 Installing the VisoGuard client To install the client locally please follow these steps 1 Atthe VisoGuard Start page click on the link Install the VisoGuard client on your PC using Web Start 2 Save and run the Web Start installer 3 Follow the steps of the setup program Alternatively you can also download and run the client installer executable on Windows platforms 1 Atthe VisoGuard Start page click on the link Alternative installation Download VisoGuard client installer executable Windows only 2 Save the client installer executable at an arbitrary location 3 Execute the just downloaded client installer Observer_setup exe 4 Follow the steps of the setup program standard Windows installation 2 3 2 Starting the installed VisoGuard client Once the setup finished you can start the client locally from your Windows Start menu or also from a desktop icon if you selected so at installation The Starter window appears Start
66. ams for live viewing and recording can be annotated with text that then displayed in the video stream The annotations can come from external data sources and can be stored in the event database for later retrieval and search Annotations can be created via the SNAP XML interface or with a simple shell command with command line options Example applications are POS cash register data ATM data logistics data or access control data 15 1 1 Working with video annotations You can access the video annotation tools from the server s web page 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 After login click on Download configuration files Download the file annotate zip and unpack the zip to a local directory on your client 4 The zip contains the Windows command line program annotate exe Just run the program from a command line to see all options You can also refer to annotate readme txt The Java source code of the program is also part of the zip file 5 If you select to generate an event with the video annotation an event will be stored in the event database for later retrieval and search By selecting VideoStreamAnnotation in the event type filter of the Event search dialog the annotation text can be searched for by SQL type wildcards a 15 2 Embedding VisoGuard video streams in web pages VisoGuard allows you to embed live video streams in standard w
67. analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis ICAT dialog Select a camera in the camera tree and in the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Object tracking region In the Identifier text field enter a name for this region Choose whether you want a Polygon or Rectangle shape by checking the respective check box 6 Now you can draw the region with the mouse in the preview pane For a polygon you just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You close the polygon by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse Here is an example of a tracking region Ol IN Rectangle Polygon Please note As indicated in 14 2 Basic iCAT concepts on page 97 and 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 97 objects will only be detected and tracked inside a tracking region Event triggers will only work inside the boundaries of tracking regions On the other hand making the object tracking region as small as possible helps you to save CPU power of your VisoGuard server Also be aware that the tracking region should approximately at least be twice the size of the biggest objects you want to track 99 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 7 Now you have to set the configuration parameters of the tracking region Field label Indoor camera Overhead downward looking Sensitivity Max object lifetime sec Max stopped object
68. aneous streams and in different qualities image sizes and compression quality while most MPEG cameras can produce only one stream in one quality Therefore the same stream will be used in live viewing and recording This summarizes the benefit of MPEG the ability to give a relatively high image quality at a lower bit rate bandwidth usage This can be especially important if the available network bandwidth is limited or if video is to be stored recorded at a high frame rate and there are storage space restraints The lower bandwidth demands come at the cost of higher complexity in encoding and decoding which in turn contributes to a higher latency when compared to MJPEG The graph below shows in principle how bandwidth use between MJPEG and MPEG compares at a given image scene with motion As can be seen at very low frame rates where MPEG compression cannot make use of similarities between neighboring frames to a high degree and due to the overhead generated by the MPEG streaming format the bandwidth consumption is actually higher than MJPEG Bandwidth Frame rate 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements The image recording quality and image size affects the required storage per image frame Likewise does the frame rate impact the recording storage and also the network bandwidth VisoGuard supports all image sizes that a camera offers The following are some values for typical JPEG images JPEG Image size Image qua
69. ard 4 0 Server and Client Compatibility e Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 SNAP XML Interface These documents are available online as PDFs directly on each VisoGuard server via the standard web interface and also from each client via the Info menu at the lower right corner 1 2 What is new with this release The changes of a release are documented in the Release Notes which you can find on the standard web interface of each VisoGuard server and also under the following direct link http lt your server gt relnotes or on the public demo server showroom netavis net relnotes There you also find the release information of previous releases 1 3 VisoGuard data security VisoGuard has been designed to provide the highest level of robustness and data security The following aspects of the VisoGuard system document that e All video and configuration data on an VisoGuard server are stored in separate file system partitions protected by multiple levels of security e Optionally the video data can be stored using 128 bit AES encryption new since release 4 0 e Optionally HTTPS can be used for streaming video data between cameras and servers new since release 4 0 e In any case the authentication data user names and passwords transferred between clients and servers are encrypted by MD5 strong encryption Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Please note Encrypting and decryption can mean higher CPU overhead at the server and or the client Also d
70. as Anzeigen des Inhalts solte nur erfolgen wenn Sie Xperts Software Ltd vertrauen fugelassene Signatur Volle Zugriffsrechte Cl inhalt von Xperts Software Ltd immer vertrauen ete Hera Select the checkbox always trust and click on Yes to allow the download of the trusted applet When you start the client the first time after a new installation some additional client application components need to be installed this is needed only once per client You will be asked Information _ i i Your client needs further program components Install program components from Canca Normally you want choose to install the program components from Server over network However if you have a very slow network connection between the client and the server you might want to choose installation from Local media When you choose this option you will be asked to locate the directory Clientinstaller of the VisoGuard installation CD Once you choose the correct location and push OK the components will be installed Next you either come to the login panel or to the license dialog If the license dialog appears you yet have to obtain a license for using VisoGuard Please consult the manual Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration for information on how to do that At the login panel enter your Login name and Password and click OK Password Login name i Forgot my password OK Cancel Guest login
71. ask bar 2 You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 8 Handling events on page 61 3 The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow you to selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 Further considerations and limitations e Abrupt brightness changes and large variation of white balance as automatically set by several cameras may cause false detection especially false detection of removed objects In general if these two conditions become worse the algorithm become less reliable The best conditions are provided by a stably lit indoor situation However the algorithm can also work successfully in outdoor situations If the lighting conditions are varying heavily it is recommended to use just abandoned detection removed detection is switched off because it is more robust to such varying lighting conditions through longer detection timeout e The region must be carefully defined i e the interesting objects for example objects of a theft detection must be fully located inside the region For example If you want to detect when your telephone is removed from the table you can define a relatively small regio
72. bjects 102 video processing speed 98 120 video streaming formats 96 Visual Statistics 113 working with in Online monitor 112 In camera motion detection 59 settings 25 IP address of camera 21 iPhone 83 J Joystick control for PTZ cameras 70 JPEG aspect ratio 8 21 exporting from archive 52 image sizes and quality 8 MJPEG vs MPEG 6 L Languages 12 Layout navigation 84 editing mode 85 installation 84 navigation and operation 92 zones 87 Layout of windows modifying 18 LDAP 32 License displaying current license 73 license string 10 Login secondary password 29 the locally installed client 14 the web based client 13 Low bandwidth connections with Transcoding tm 19 M Manual recording control in the Online monitor 39 MJPEG 7 versus MPEG streaming 7 Mobile devices PDAs 83 Motion detection 56 in archive 53 in camera 59 recordings based on 45 109 server based 56 Motion JPEG 7 MPEG 6 7 settings 22 versus MJPEG streaming 7 working with cams 41 MPEG 4 6 See also MPEG Multi streaming parallel video streams 6 enabling 22 optimizing iCAT operation 97 Multicast streaming for MPEG cameras 22 Multi screen operation 17 positioning windows 19 Multi window operation 17 MxPEG 6 See also MPEG NTSC 8 O Object bounding boxes iCAT 113 Object counting ICAT 100 Object markers iCAT 112 Object tracking region 96 Online monitor 34 creating views 34 Thecus VisoGuard 4
73. camera from the camera tree to view ports 35 E Encryption AES encryption of video recordings 77 general description 5 HTTPS for connection to camera 21 Event acknowledging 62 Event list create a separate Event list window 18 maximizing 18 positioning in the window 18 Event triggers iCAT 96 100 Events 61 details 62 Event list 61 modifying layouts 18 priorities 61 sorting 61 event based recording 109 HTML export 64 in layout navigation 93 priorities 61 remote servers 82 searching in the event database 63 short replay 62 Statistics 64 user privileges for accessing and handling 1 video analysis iCAT 115 Exiting the client 19 Exporting archive recordings 52 F Floating window components 18 119 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Four eyes principle 29 Frame rate changing in view port 37 maximizing 37 H H 264 6 See also MPEG HDTV 16 9 aspect ratio in Online monitor 34 HTML code for embedding streams in web pages 116 HTTPS encryption 21 I O contacts settings 25 iCAT 95 considerations for setting up 96 CPU load 97 event triggers 96 100 event based recording 45 109 events 115 object bounding boxes 113 object counting 100 object markers 112 object tracking region 96 98 people counting 100 privacy mask 106 recording based on 45 109 removed abandoned objects 107 sabotage detection 103 scheduling activities 45 109 sensitivity setting 99 Smart Tripwire tm 100 starting and stopping o
74. ch event trigger separately in the form of Q for last quarter of an hour H for last hour D for day and T for total since setup Here is an example L a F p H i l objekt stoppt wor theke Q 1 H 1 0 2 7 2 counter d 3H 30 47 4 e There are two event triggers a field for counting stopped objects and a people counting tripwire counter 1 defines whether object bounding boxes should be displayed Here is an example of an object bounding box displayed Please note that also the object marker and the event triggers are displayed 14 4 2 Displaying Visual Statistics For each camera that has active iCAT schedules enabled you can display Visual Statistics as overlays to the normal video stream in the Online monitor and also when playing back recordings Please be aware that the statistics are available only inside the object tracking region and that the tracking region must have the collection of statistics enabled see 14 3 1 Defining an object tracking region on page 99 This is an example of visual object count statistics 114 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual ENTRY _azdis 5 fps objekt stoppt autteppich U GHAM 07 472 counter 1 0 0 H 0 0 0 T 128 To choose what Visual statistics to display you have these options In the Online monitor in the view port of a camera that has iCAT processing enabled the view port control menu offers a Visual statistics menu for setting the display for all view port
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76. ct gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the customize button at the right side of the tool bar 2 Choose Project gt Camera status display settings which opens the Status display settings dialog This dialog now allows you to define the status settings for camera and zone controls You can modify the status display settings according to your needs You can also enable disable certain status displays by setting the Enabled flag 3 Push OK to save your changes or Cancel to discard them When you switch to navigation mode the new settings become effective 13 6 7 Project settings The layout navigation tool LNT allows you to set several project settings that define the workings of the tool In the Project menu choose Project settings to open the Project settings dialog Here you can set the following values Setting Show home layout on load Highlight zone under mouse cursor Automatically jump to layout on event Visiting order of events Set event state to seen visited by Only suggest events of mapped images for visiting Standard view size for layouts Event list insertion mode 94 Description Defines whether the Home layout is shown when the tool is Started In order for that to work you must have a home layout defined Defines whether zones will be highlighted when you move the mouse over them This can be useful for distinguishing when the mouse cursor is over the zone or over the camera
77. ct Add new group which will open the new group dialog that allows you to define a Group name Press Next to edit the group Privileges The privileges are the same as for a user Inherited privileges are displayed in normal font while privileges defined at this group level are displayed in bold font Press Save to create the new group 4 5 Defining Online Monitor views for a new user If a new user needs to work in the Online Monitor then camera views need to be defined Generally there are 2 ways for doing that Login as the new user and manually create new views as described under 5 1 Creating a new view on page 34 or 31 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual e copy existing views from another administration user as described under 5 8 Copying views between users on page 41 4 6 Information about logged in users VisoGuard allows you to get information about logged in users 1 Choose Users from the System administration menu Now you see the list of logged in users with information about the host from which the user logged in login time total bytes transmitted since login and bandwidth 4 7 Changing the password This section describes how to change passwords for users defined in VisoGuard For users defined in Active Directory LDAP the passwords need to be changed there Each VisoGuard administrator with the appropriate privileges can change the passwords of other users see also 4 7 Creating a new user account on page 29
78. cument Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Supported Video Sources may provide further details on camera restrictions Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 1 4 2 Motion JPEG A network camera captures individual images and compresses them into a JPEG format The network camera can capture and compress for example 30 such individual images per second 30 fps and then make them available as a continuous flow of images over a network to an VisoGuard server which then distributes it to VisoGuard clients and or stores it in the camera archive At a frame rate of about 16 fos and above the viewer will perceive full motion video As each individual image is a complete JPEG compressed image they will all have the same guaranteed quality determined by the compression level as defined for the network camera or network video server Example of a sequence of three complete JPEG images a fla 1 4 3 MPEG MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Some of the best known audio and video streaming techniques are defined by the so called MPEG consortium Moving Pictures Expert Group Under the MPEG umbrella several streaming methods are available like MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG strictly taken MxPEG is not part of the standards defined by the MPEG group but is a proprietary standard by the company Mobotix However because of reasons of simplicity we refer to MxPEG also as an MPEG format MPEG 4 and H 264 are well known and widely supported MPEG streaming standards Simply desc
79. d modify the root group but please be aware that at each group or user level privileges can be overridden Push Save to save your changes 4 3 Setting camera access rights 1 2 3 on Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog Select the user or group you want to modify Click the Next button twice to get to the Camera Access Rights dialog Analog to the user privileges the camera access rights are inherited from the upper group level Inherited access rights from the group to which the camera or camera group belongs are displayed with normal font while values that are defined at the current level are displayed in bold Select the camera or camera group you want to look at or modify Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu Set the rights according to your needs To set access rights for the selected user or group for all cameras in the system you can select and modify the root camera group Push Save to save your changes 4 4 Working with user groups User groups are a powerful means to manage and organize users For instance you can set privileges for groups that are then inherited by the users belonging to this group 4 4 1 Creating a user group 1 2 3 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog In the list of users and groups select a user group to which you want to add a new group In the menu sele
80. d video analysis information Please refer to 14 4 Working with iCAT on page 113 for further information 5 4 5 Defining a crop area For views where you have the Crop image to fit view port setting selected you can define what part of the cropped camera image you want to see by choosing Define crop area from the menu 5 5 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings VisoGuard allows you to zoom view ports in the Online monitor and in the Archive player Basically you have two ways to zoom a view port or a recording in the Archive player 5 5 1 Zooming with the mouse wheel 1 Just move the mouse pointer over a view port and turn the mouse wheel The view port will zoom accordingly 2 Youcan move the zoomed area in a view port by dragging it with the mouse 3 Use the mouse wheel again to zoom out 5 5 2 Zooming by drawing a zoom rectangle 1 With the mouse draw a rectangle in a view port 2 Click in this rectangle which will cause the view port to zoom accordingly 3 You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle You can also modify its size by turning the mouse wheel 4 Click outside the rectangle to return to normal not zoomed view 5 You can remove the zoom rectangle by clicking into it with the mouse and pressing the Delete or Backspace key Alternatively you can drag the rectangle outside of the view port to remove it You can also have multiple zooming rectangles per view port Showing a zoomed view i
81. dialog in the Admin area 10 1 1 Server load display The server load display is located in the status bar of the main client window and shows the following information CPU xx Server CPU load in percent This display is updated every 5 seconds IDB xx Load of Image database IDB engine This parameter shows how busy the server is with saving video data on storage The xx KB s actual video data storage rate is displayed below the percent value in Megabytes sec or Kilobytes sec The IDB display does not appear if the server does not record Note that the IDB load also increases when the server removes video data when the storage is full or recording time limits are reached IDB details are updated once a minute OVR xx Overloaded state of the IDB engine The IDB engine is overloaded if the server receives more video data from the cameras than it can record save on storage In this case the server will drop frames OVR shows the percent of dropped frames If the label OVR does not appear then the server can save every incoming frame SWP xx MB Swapping This display appears if the server starts heavy swapping which means that the amount of main memory of the server is insufficient If this is situation persists the server must be extended with additional RAM 10 1 2 System information dialog in the Admin area 1 Choose System information from the System administration menu This opens the System information dialog 72
82. display you have these options In the Online monitor in the view port of a camera that has iCAT processing enabled the view port control menu offers an iCAT info display menu for setting the display for all view ports in a view the same menu is also available via the View control menu Set parameters of all view ports Also in the Archive player you also have an iCAT button with the same menu The iCAT info display menu allows you to select from various display options For each of these options you can select Show always Show on mouse over and Do not show For some you also can select Show on event The display options are Tracking defines whether the object tracking region boundaries should be shown boundaries Event trigger defines whether the event triggers like tripwires and object starting stopping fields lines boxes should be shown Object defines whether object markers should be displayed Object markers show the object markers ID and information about the state of the object MOV moving STP stopped LOUNGE move just a little bit size and speed 113 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Event count fields Object bounding boxes In this example object ID is 10 object size is 9110 pixels and the object is moving with a speed of 208 pixels sec defines whether the event count fields are to be displayed in the lower left corner of the view port When enabled the count information will be displayed for ea
83. e 10 for further details about licensing Working with sessions of pre 4 0 servers The Starter also allows you to also manage sessions with VisoGuard servers running a releases older than 4 0 Just select the checkbox Show settings for pre 4 0 releases to show the additional settings Description of elements Element Window width height Upper left corner X Y Initial monitor view name Window decoration visible Tool control bar visible Event bar visible Online monitor control bar 16 Meaning Define the size of the client window in pixels Define the location of the upper left corner of the client window in pixels This setting can be changed e g for multi screen setups Is optional and defines the initial Online monitor view Defines whether the windows decoration border is visible Defines whether the tool control bar at the right side of the window is visible This bar allows switching between Online Monitor Archive Player Event Management and Administration Defines whether the event bar at the bottom of the window is visible Defines whether the menu and the history buttons for Online Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Element Meaning visible monitor control are visible Overlay painting enabled When this is selected and the hardware supports it the Online monitor uses the hardware overlay technique for displaying flicker free MPEG streams This can also boost the client performance
84. eb pages Currently only MJPEG stream are supported The embedding HTML code can be generated by VisoGuard 15 2 1 Generating the embedding HTML code and testing it You can generate the embedding HTML code from the server s web page 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that After login click on Generate embedding HTML code Now you can set several options for the embedded applet like size and streaming properties A click on Generate applet tag will open another window that contains the generated HTML code Push the Demo button to run and test the applet in your browser OM Ot 9 117 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 16 Index 4CIF 8 A Acknowledging events 62 Active Directory 32 AES encryption of video recordings 77 Annotating videos with data from external sources 116 Anonymize voice 22 Apple iPhone 83 Archive 43 AES encryption of video recordings 77 Audio playback 50 calendar 46 continuous timed 43 DivX export 52 event based recording 45 109 exporting 52 iCAT based recording 45 109 manual recording control in the Online monitor 39 motion detection in 53 Playback 46 programming 43 protection against deletion 51 SAFE format export 52 Save space with frame rate reduction for older parts of the archive 45 storage management 45 synchronous playback of mutiple cameras 50 time zoomimg 50 118 Aspect ratio of
85. ectangles per view port Showing a zoomed view in another view port Online monitor only Draw a zoom rectangle with the mouse Click into another view port Now the zoomed area is shown in the other view port You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle You can remove the zoom by clicking the rectangle with the mouse and pressing the Delete or Backspace key Alternatively you can drag the rectangle outside of the view port to remove it Removing a rectangle will also remove the zoomed view from the other view port TEN Please note When PTZ control is enabled any mouse actions are taken for PTZ control In order to control the view port zooming hold down the CTRL key while using the mouse 6 2 4 Playback of a time frame time zooming 150 images loaded every 45 4 ofthe total 8772 in archive 2 21 Time intervall between frames 09 725 2004 27 09 16 21 00 Z Yo E 2004 27 09 16 44 59 2004 27109 16 21 00 M w A ej 2004 27 09 16 44 59 ij aE gt gt my 1 The red and blue markers A let you select a smaller time interval for detailed playback Alternatively you can click the Set Blue Marker button Z or Set Red Marker button lto set the respective marker at the current position of the green Playback marker 2 Click the Zoom in button to load and replay the time interval between the blue and red markers 6 2 5 Playback with audio l
86. ed 43 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 6 Click the Change button now enabled and choose Continuous recording 44 Now the Scheduling dialog shows the settings for configuring continuous recording e 207mw 4 9 12 Scheduling Time intervals Recording format FSS 00 00 24 00 Continuous recording f Save audio Image guality Frame rate 5 pic sec Image size 320x240 QVGA Asa Dette Continuous recording Enable interval Requested recording period days hours ho a o0 00 24 00 _ Priority over other camera s if storage space is short Monday Friday Recording is measu K Tuesda r Saturday pia Reduced frame rate settings JPEG only Wednesday Sunday r Thursda z s Actual period days hours 0 0 Storage used by this camera MEB 0 Total storage space MB 216051 Free storage space MB 210051 Now you can define the days and times for archive recordings You can activate individual days or with the All button the whole week at once Select hours and minutes from the popup matrix Please make sure that the Enable interval checkbox is marked because only then are the settings enabled and recording is started Note If you want to record at different times on different days you can create multiple recording intervals For each recording interval proceed as described here
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88. electing the Multi stream checkboxes Please restart the server or stop and start disable enable all iCAT functions of the camera in order to activate dual streaming iCAT after changing the Multi stream selections Object detection Depending on the sensibility and other settings iCAT currently detects objects of 8x8 pixels or bigger in size Only moving objects are detected New objects are detected by iCAT after a few video frames How quickly objects are detected is also influenced by the sensibility setting 98 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual iCAT video processing speed lf the objects you want to track move very quickly across your camera view you will require a higher video processing speed of iCAT than if they move slowly across your camera view Please note Not the absolute speed of the objects influences what processing speed you need but the relative speed that these objects have in your camera view This relative speed is influenced by the camera perspective and distance from objects Example Cars on a highway are moving very fast However if you look at them with a camera from a larger distance and from a perspective with a flat angle the cars are actually are moving pretty slowly in your camera s view Therefore you can choose a slower video processing speed even for such fast objects like cars on a highway 14 3 Setting up a camera for video analytics with iCAT 14 3 1 Defining an object tracking region 1 Choose Video
89. eneral user privileges on page 30 and 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 6 1 Programming archive recordings Two types of programming are available in VisoGuard e timed recording e recording on iCAT video analysis events like motion detection or people counting To be able to program recordings you need corresponding authorization 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the camera for which you want to program archive recording When you select the camera highlighted in light blue its data are displayed in the Properties dialog at the right side of the screen 3 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group 4 Atthe bottom of the screen click on the Next button twice This takes you to the Scheduling dialog If you are setting up a new camera this dialog will be quite empty Note some fields and buttons are deactivated Only when you select Modify selected camera or group in the menu they become editable Also the Time Intervals field is still empty when you begin Later it will contain one or more program slots for the selected camera 5 Click the Add button to add a programming slot to the Time Intervals list e AXIS 2130 14 00 00 24 00 E Change a a Ee Change EE O The new entry will be select
90. er V2 61 Saved Sessions A 4 0 HU admin admingginct xperts hu 4 0 HU ckl cki net sperts hu 4 0 HU ckl fast cki e4 27 30 209 8360 default adming showroom netavis net ind31 selfip biz netavis minda i selip biz ind31 selfip biz admin admingiind31 selfip biz Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual licensing admin admin ilicensing netavis net Working with sessions The Starter allows you to manage sessions In a session you can define the server address which VisoGuard application to start and the user password details Thus you can store and run different sessions easily The Session editor is opened when you push Add new or Modify and allows you can define the session details Element Session name Application Previous Sessions Hostname or IP Address Username Password Remember password Starting the client Meaning Name under which the session is stored You can either choose VisoGuard Client or Layout Navigation Tool for further details on the Layout Navigation Tool please refer to 13 Working with Layout Navigation on page 84 The selected application will start when you press OK Offers you the list of previously active sessions Enter the name or IP address of the server you want to connect to Enter the login name of the user Enter the password for the user Select the checkbox if you want the password to be remembered for the next start of the application Pushing Start
91. es of cameras or camera servers Please note Here we describe how to setup a camera in VisoGuard If you setup an IP camera then the camera itself also can be configured This is normally done via a web based interface of the camera Please consult the manual of your IP camera for further details 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties Start the VisoGuard client application see 2 Starting and operating the VisoGuard client on page 10 You can either e addanew camera from scratch or e duplicate an existing camera and just modify some parameters see 3 2 2 Duplicating an existing camera on page 26 Duplicating an existing camera creates an exact duplicate with all settings copied This is useful when you have more than one camera of the same type or with equal similar settings like recording or video analytics settings 3 2 1 Adding a camera from scratch 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 With a mouse click select the camera group to which you want to add the new camera later on you can move the camera in the camera tree to a different group 3 Choose Add new camera from the menu The Properties dialog opens in which you can configure the camera Enter your camera data in the corresponding fields Use the following table as a guide Fields labeled in bold are mandatory while all others are optional Field label Your input Camera name Enter the n
92. export You can cancel the export anytime by pushing Cancel The exported file is an executable for MS Windows XP Vista 2000 Here is a screen dump of a running SAFE file File View Help Axis 20 mw zoom 3 fo 2008 07 29 09 33 16 CET Zooming in exported SAFE video sequences You can zoom into parts of the camera view by drawing a rectangle and then clicking in the rectangle You can drag a zoomed view with the mouse Alternatively you can show the zoomed view in a separate window by selecting View gt Separate zoom window You can also use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out See also 6 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings on page 49 6 4 Motion detection in archive recordings VisoGuard supports server based motion detection not only for live camera streams but also in the archived recordings Here you find information about how to execute motion detection on recordings Please note In this version VisoGuard supports archive motion detection only for MJPEG recordings and not for recordings of other streaming formats like MPEG 4 or H 264 1 Go to the main window and choose the Archive player if the Archive player is not available then perhaps it is disabled in the client preferences see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 17 In the Calendar view of the Player select the camera and the timeframe for the motion detection Push on the Playback button This will load the images of the
93. f the camera allows MPEG streaming you can select the MPEG streaming format from view port control menu Once the MPEG streaming is activated additional MPEG controls appear on the view port s 41 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual These controls allow you to see and modify Audio aspects Audio from the camera indicates that audio from the camera is on indicates that audio from the camera is off A click on the icon turns it on or off Audio to the camera indicates that audio from your microphone to the camera is on amp indicates that audio from your microphone to the camera is off A click on the icon turns it on or off If you have the Default settings in the Camera Admin set to Audio from and to share single button then you will see only one control icon Bidirectional Audio indicates audio in both directions is on loudspeaker and microphone is on 2 indicated that audio in both directions is off loudspeaker and microphone is off 42 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 6 Working with archive recordings This section shows you how to work with the VisoGuard recording archive particularly in the following areas e Programming archive recordings timed or triggered by iCAT video analytics events e Selection and playback of archive recordings Please note In order to work with archive recordings you need to have the appropriate user privileges and camera access rights for further details see 4 2 Setting g
94. f the recording also includes audio i e the recording has been done with MPEG 4 or H 264 and with Audio recording enabled then you can decide whether you also want to replay audio By default Audio is switched on when you replay To toggle audio on or off push the 2 button in the Playback view 6 2 6 Synchronous playback of up to four recordings 1 Select the playback time frame for the first camera as described above Then change to the Player view 50 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 2 Click the Synchronous Playback button HA which opens the Camera tree where you can select the second camera for synchronous playback 3 Repeat camera selection until you have up to 4 cameras for synchronous playback The following illustration shows synchronous playback of two cameras Calendar Player Analog 1 Digital 2 _ Sr GE SER T dhiii nET ra EHA AN A m Archive playback Playback acceleration 500x 00 00 mA Previous timeline selections 16022007 09 26 00 10 32 59 m a E p cr 160212007 10 27 00 E W be E 1022007 11 32 49 16 02 2007 10 27 00 WE A BB i cto22007 11 32 59 1d a aj ja 6 2 7 Displaying video analysis iCAT information for recordings Th the Control menu the iCAT menu offers various options for displaying iCAT related video analysis information also for recordings Please refer to 14 4 Working with iCAT on page 113 for further information 6 2 8 Protection of reco
95. g utilities When it is switched on the settings in the camera are overwritten by the values of this dialog When it is switched off the values from the camera are taken and the settings in VisoGuard are ignored In very special situations only e g when setting the values by VisoGuard causes some unwanted side effects in the camera you may want to set the values in the camera directly and switch off this check box Image quality Defines the image quality of the stream The possible values are High Medium and Low quality The higher the quality the more bandwidth will be used for transmission and the bigger the space requirements for recording will be see also 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 6 For multi stream JPEG cameras this value cannot be set here since separate image qualities can be set for recording and in each view port in the Online Monitor Image size Defines the image size of the stream Possible values depend on the camera model The bigger the image size the more bandwidth will be used for transmission and the more space for recording will be needed For multi stream JPEG cameras this value is of no importance since separate image sizes can be set for recording and in each view port in the Online Monitor Frame rate Defines the frame rate of the stream Possible values depend on the camera model The bigger the frame rate the more bandwidth will be used for transmission and the more space for
96. h the PTZ start button or choose PTZ gt Activate PTZ from the view port control menu The icon IF of the view port indicates that you have PTZ control over the camera 67 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 68 Note For each user a PTZ priority and allocation timeouts can be defined see 4 7 Creating a new user account on page 29 If another user with equal or higher priority has already assumed PTZ control over the camera you will be denied control and notified in a window Then you need to wait until this user surrenders control or reaches his timeout A user with a higher PTZ priority can take away PTZ control from a user with lower PTZ priority Direct PTZ control inside a view port You have several options for directly controlling PTZ cams The various modes can be selected via PTZ gt PTZ control mode in the view port control menu The default setting is Continuous mode and Center on click As an alternate mode also an operation via a Crosshair is available Continuous mode available for joystick and mouse operation Click the mouse in the view port and drag it in the direction where you want the PTZ cam to move A red line indicates how fast the movement is When you release the mouse the movement will stop Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Center on Click A single mouse click somewhere in the view port commands the camera to center on the mouse click location Zooming Zooming is available via the mo
97. have a light red background color As soon as an event has been opened in the Event details dialog its background color changes to light grey When an event is acknowledged it usually disappears from the event list However in the client preferences you can define whether acknowledged events should be displayed in the event list If so they appear with a white background color 8 1 1 Event details Double clicking on an event in the event list opens the Event details dialog Event details Object stopped in field Object sits on chair of camera Axis 206 netavis DELL Name ofevent Objetstson chair Comment SC iSSSCS Beeptabled po o o o S If you want to examine details of an event simply click on its symbol An Event viewer opens The first line contains the event text Further details of the event are listed at the left side of the dialog The exact contents of the event details depends on the event type but you will find the exact time when the event occurred and if it is a camera related then also the camera ID and name are shown When you move the mouse over the camera preview area you will also see the video analytics object markers and annotations related to the event trigger as seen in the screen shot above Here is what you can do in the dialog by pushing various buttons e Start live stream starts live monitoring of the camera that triggered the event e Short event replay starts a playback of
98. he VisoGuard client on page 10 The Layout Navigation is installed automatically when you install the locally installed VisoGuard client Please refer to 2 3 Working with the installed VisoGuard client on page 14 Note Currently the layout navigation tool is available only in the locally installed client For running the layout navigation tool Microsoft NET 2 0 or a newer version must be installed 13 3 Starting the layout navigation tool You can start the layout navigation tool the same way as you can start the installed VisoGuard client Please refer to 2 3 2 Starting the installed VisoGuard client on page 14 The layout navigation tool LNT main window looks like this 84 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual hutang Ii i E i 1 Layout hierarchy Pos 120 feias Ca F zoso 250220 Event list Link fieldto different layout Event description gung it Bidsegment GevatorComes der Kamera netarvis Ans2 120 5 Event count unacknowledged and net yet vieted 4 3 Status line 13 4 Setting up a project and defining layouts Editing mode In order to setup LNT for work you have to execute a few steps e Plan your layout hierarchy e Select and upload images to be used for layout backgrounds e Define the hierarchy and map your cameras In the next subsections we will cover the above topics 13 4 1 Planning your layout hierarchy Before you create a project and start to upload graphics images for your layouts
99. he privileges for the new user see 4 2 Setting general user privileges on page 30 for details Push Next to go the Camera Access Rights dialog Here set the camera access rights for the new user see 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 for details Push Save to create the new user account with the settings you entered 4 2 Setting general user privileges For each user and group certain privileges can be defined These privileges define to which tools and data a user has access and what he can do 1 2 3 30 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog Select the user or group you want to modify Click on the Next button to move to the Privileges dialog Here you can edit privileges for the user or group In their initial state all privileges in this dialog are inherited from the upper group level Inherited privileges from the group level to which the user or group belongs are displayed 6 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual with normal font while values that you define at the current user or group level are displayed in bold Use the scroll bar to access the lower part of the list Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu Set the privileges according to your needs To change a privilege click on its button and select the status from the pop up menu either Inherited Enabled or Disabled To set privileges for all users in the system you can select an
100. hecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual e Event list e Camera tree You can define any combination of components and you can also define that a window should contain only one component Note Depending on the authorization that your VisoGuard administrator has assigned to you some of the client components could be disabled menu shown in grey color If you need more authorization please contact your local VisoGuard administrator Here is how you can define what components are to be shown in a window 1 Inthe VisoGuard menu choose Client preferences which will open the dialog 2 For each window you can define what should be displayed For example select the Online monitor node and turn on select the Display Online monitor check box For each window individually you can turn on or off the Event list Camera tree and Archive player only for the main window Please note Normally it does not make sense to always show the camera tree since it will be opened when needed on demand 2 4 3 Modifying window layouts You can also modify the layout of a window by rearranging its components Once you have defined in the Client preferences dialog what components are to be shown in a window you can customize the layout Select the menu Windows gt Enable layout customization For the Event list and the Camera tree you can now define e Where they are located inside the window Just click on the title bar of the Event list or the Camera tree and
101. ields for In camera motion detection please refer to 7 3 In camera motion detection on page 59 for further details Field label Your input Receive event images via_ If this checkbox is marked you enable the In camera motion FTP detection and tell VisoGuard to receive event images via FTP Please be aware that if you select this checkbox the server based motion detection must be disabled Receive event images via The same as above just that the images are received via HTTP HTTP protocol some cameras support only HTTP Post recording length sec When VisoGuard receives an in camera event then it can start a parallel server side recording in addition to the event images it receives from the camera The event images received from the camera via FTP HTTP are merged with this server side recording This field defines how long this parallel post event recording is If it set to 0 then VisoGuard does not start its own server side recording of images and just stores the event images it receives from the camera via FTP HTTP Recording frequency This field defines the recording frequency of the above mentioned parallel server side post event recording Push the Next button at the bottom of the dialog This invokes the Scheduling dialog Please refer to 6 1 Programming archive recordings on page 43 on how to set up the camera archive and scheduling Optional Push the Next button again at the bottom of the dialog This invokes the I O C
102. images for the various layouts The layout navigation tool supports popular image graphics file formats like GIF JPEG PNG etc Depending on your needs and the available screen resolution for the layout navigation tool LNT you have to choose the size in pixels for your images Please keep in mind that the LNT also supports image scaling to fit the available space To create a new layout follow these steps 1 Inthe layout navigation tool LNT switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing mode button atthe right side of the tool bar 2 Inthe Layout menu choose New which opens the Layout dialog ad Layout S Layout name Ground floor Freview background image Parent Alarm Layout background file ma 10 27 36 49 2008 01 24 164430 jpg floor_plan4 jpg floor_plan3 jpg floor plan jp 3 Enter a name for the layout 4 Select a background image from the list of available uploaded images or push Upload to upload a new background image for the layout you can also delete uploaded images from the server by selecting an image from the list and pushing Delete 5 If the layout is subordinate to another layout then choose the parent layout from the Parent pop up menu you can change the layout hierarchy later on via the Layout gt Properties dialog 6 Push OK to create the layout Now you see that the layout with the selected background image has been created
103. in the VisoGuard client that runs on the same machine If there is an VisoGuard view that has the same name as the LNT zone and that also contains all the cameras of the zone then this view is exposed in the VisoGuard client Otherwise a new view is created with the name of the zone Events You can also modify the behavior of zones of this type for certain events like Connection to camera lost or Motion detected The event View selected in Observer Client works this way If there is an LNT zone with the same name as the view in VisoGuard then the corresponding action is triggered 3 Click OK to save changes 91 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 13 5 4 Adding a new zone control 1 Switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Editing mode or by pushing the customize button atthe right side of the tool bar 2 Inthe control icon list click the right mouse button and choose Add zone from the pop up menu This opens the New zone dialog which is essentially the same as the Modify Zone dialog above see there for details 3 Click OK to create the new zone control 13 6 Layout navigation and operation Navigation mode Switch to Navigation mode by clicking the navigation mode icon at the right side of the tool bar or by choosing Project gt Switch to navigation mode Please note An VisoGuard client must be running under the same user on the same client workstation so that it can be controlled by the layout navigation t
104. in the Starter will open the client window and connect you to the VisoGuard server When the client is started the Starter window will be hidden and in the task bar you will see it s icon You can access the Starter by clicking its icon There you can open the Starter dialog again and also force an exit of the client application Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Active sessions Quick Connect to Open Starter dialog Exit H When you start the client the first time after a new installation some additional client application components need to be installed this is needed only once per client You will be asked Information GT Your client needs further program components Install program components from Serer over network Normally you want choose to install the program components from Server over network However if you have a very slow network connection between the client and the server you might want to choose installation from Local media When you choose this option you will be asked to locate the directory Clientinstaller of the VisoGuard installation CD Once you choose the correct location and push OK the components will be installed If you do not yet have a permanent license string for VisoGuard a License dialog appears To continue without a permanent license just push Continue In this case the full functionality may not be available See also 2 7 Introduction the VisoGuard client on pag
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106. ion and User admin Manipulate user data Here is how you can do that 1 Login as the user from whom you want to copy the view s and go to the Online monitor 2 Create define the view s you want to copy Please note that only saved settings are copied 3 Select the view you want to copy and then choose Copy current view to other users from the view Control menu Now a user selection dialog opens 4 Select the users to whom you want to copy the current view Multiple users can be selected by holding down CTRL while clicking on user names After you have finished selecting the users press the Select button Now the selected users receive a copy of the current view You can also copy all views of the current user by choosing Copy all views to other users If the users already have views with the same name as the copied views then the existing views will be overwritten by the copied ones Please note The user who was copied to has to login again in order to see the newly copied views 5 9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Note In the current version of VisoGuard MPEG and bidirectional audio is only supported by clients running on MS Windows For further details please refer to 2 7 Introduction the VisoGuard client on page 10 VisoGuard also supports MPEG cameras MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG with audio streaming see also 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 I
107. it makes sense to plan the layout hierarchy For example if your VisoGuard system covers a building then you could have an overview layout image for the building and then separate subordinate layout images for each floor For an even bigger setup If your VisoGuard system covers a whole area with several office or plant buildings then you could have an overview layout image for the whole area and subordinate layout images for each of the buildings and additional images for the parking lots driveways fence sectors etc Each of the building layouts then in turn could have subordinate layout images for parts of the building like each of the floors Each of the floors could additionally have subordinate layouts for parts of the floor or even for each of the rooms Thus you can create hierarchies at arbitrary levels of detail 85 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 13 4 2 Switching to editing mode and creating a project 1 Switch to editing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing button at the right side of the tool bar In editing mode the LNT window now has added a new control icon list 2 Create a new project by choosing Project gt New project and then enter a name of the new project in the newly opened dialog Push OK Now you start to upload background images for your layouts 13 4 3 Creating layouts and mapping your cameras After you planned your layout hierarchy you have to select appropriate
108. layed when a user notification event related to the definition occurs 15 After you have entered all parameters for your definition save it by clicking on the Save button 16 If you have not yet scheduled a detection based recording for this camera you will be prompted for whether you want to edit the scheduling now Click on the Yes button if you want to configure the scheduling now Please refer to section 7 7 3 Scheduling motion detection on page 58 Click No if you want to do that later Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually If a definition is not assigned to an active schedule then it will not be activated no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated although it has the Active option set 7 1 3 Scheduling motion detection The scheduling for simple motion detection is the same as for other iCAT definitions Please refer to 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 7 1 4 Controlling PTZ cameras with server based motion detection events lt is possible to assign a sequence of PTZ positioning actions to each motion detection MD field definition Once the MD field gets active the associated PTZ action is executed PTZ actions can be assigned to an MD field by appending the following sequence to the MD Identifier ptz lt CID gt lt PresetNa
109. lity Storage per image approximately Small Low 3 KB 176x144 QCIF PAL 176x120 QCIF NTSC 160x120 QQVGA Medium 5 KB High 8 KB Medium Low 8 KB JPEG Image size 352x288 CIF PAL 352x240 CIF NTSC 320x240 QVGA Large 704x576 4CIF PAL 704x480 4CIF NTSC 640x480 VGA Image quality Medium High Low Medium High Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Storage per image approximately 13 KB 20 KB 20 KB 34 KB 52 KB For mega pixel cameras the image size will be much bigger than shown in the table Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 2 Starting and operating the VisoGuard client 2 1 Introduction the VisoGuard client Once you have successfully installed VisoGuard on your server authorized users can access the server via an VisoGuard client Normally the VisoGuard client runs on a PC separate from the server however in a client on server installation the client runs directly on the server see the document Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration for further information on how to create and run a client on server installation Licensing issues The available functionality of your VisoGuard installation is defined by the license string The document Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration describes how licensing works and how to obtain a license string If you have a temporary demo license a License dialog appears at every login indicating that there is no permanent
110. ll in the Requested recording period for this camera This value defines how long VisoGuard will keep recordings Recordings that are older than Requested recording period the will be automatically deleted by VisoGuard see also 6 1 3 Operation of the VisoGuard dynamic storage management on page 45 You can also select Priority over other cameras if storage space is short to give this camera priority over other cameras if the available storage space is too short for all requested recordings of all cameras for further details see 6 1 3 Operation of the VisoGuard dynamic storage management on page 45 You can also define what the requested recording period refers to either Recording period is measured from now or Recording period is measured from youngest recording There can be quite a difference between these two choices for the following case Assume a motion detection based recording that only triggers recording once every few weeks Optionally in order to save disk space you can lower the frame rate of older parts of the archive To do that click on Reduced frame rate settings JPEG only to open a small dialog that allows you to enter a reduction period and a reduced frame rate For example setting 30 days of Requested recording period with 25 fos and 20 days for reduced archive with 3 fps will maintain an archive containing recent 10 days with 25 fps and the remaining 20 days will be automatically reduced to 3 fps Please note that thi
111. ll requested periods for all recorded cameras However if there is not enough space available the allocation process is doing two things 45 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual e t generates a system event once a day and sends an email SMS to the VisoGuard administrator telling him that there is not enough space for all recordings e lt automatically truncates the recordings of cameras to allow a proportionally even distribution of the available space among all cameras For some special cameras that have to record the requested storage period in any circumstances VisoGuard offers the Priority over other cameras if storage space is short flag If this flag is set for a camera VisoGuard always tries to store the requested period for this camera and truncates other cameras that do not have this flag set a little more If there is more than 1 camera that has the flag set the storage management process tries to store all of those cameras Algorithm of the dynamic storage management process Fill time percentage FTP 100 Actual recording time Requested recording time VisoGuard tries to keep the FTP of all cameras of each of the two priority classes the same high priority cameras and lower priority cameras First the algorithm tries to fully record the high priority cameras and then use what is left for the lower priority ones whereby all of those will reach the same FTP However the low priority cameras can never go below an FTP
112. log cameras visually please follow these steps 1 Inthe Online Monitor go to the view that shows the first analog camera in a view port 2 CTRL click into the view port that shows the first analog camera 3 Now go to the view that shows the camera that you would like to swap with and CTRL click in the view port Now the ports of the two cameras have been swapped 28 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 4 Managing users VisoGuard requires users to login in order to work with the system This chapter describes how to create and manage users in VisoGuard Generally you can either e use VisoGuard to administer users see 4 1 Creating a new user account on page 29 or e utilize Active directory or LDAP to manage users see 4 8 Working with users from Active Directory or LDAP on page 32 4 1 Creating a new user account An VisoGuard administrator can create user accounts in the system Please note At initial product installation of a set of predefined users accounts and groups are created These users and groups model typical permissions of users in various roles Instead of creating a new user account you can take one of these predefined users and modify the settings accordingly Here are the steps for creating a new user account 1 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog 2 Select a user group to which you want to add the user Please refer to 4 4 Working with user groups o
113. logged out ser logged out ser logged in ser logged out ser logged in ser logged out Internet 8 3 Generating an event statistics report VisoGuard allows you to create an event statistics report in MS Excel XLS format To create a statistics report file follow these steps 1 64 Choose Event statistics export from the Events menu This brings up the Event statistics export dialog Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Time interval settings i pai Z Resolution Start time 2007 Time period Month Event filter Event type Summary tor all Name of camera Summary for all Name of user Summary for all Event parameter name Event parameter value So any string _ any character 2 Select for which Start time Time period and time Resolution you want to create the report Also you can filter according to Even type Camera and User multiple selection by holding down the CTRL key while clicking is supported for all filters If you do not select any values for Event filter then a summary statistic report will be created 3 Push OK to start creating the report file You will be prompted for a file name where the report should be stored 4 Open the created file in MS Excel With the data you can also create graphics like the following one motion detection statistics for one day a ee ee a ae ee ee ce Motion detection Video content analysis events Analog 1 Analog 1 eingang
114. m event will be raised by and large if the timeout is reached But when another moving or stopped objects for example the actor itself who is going to leave a luggage hides or overlaps the interesting object such that it is visible only partially or not at all the detection time may be longer So these timeouts are not guaranteed detection timeouts but rather parameters which can increase robustness setting them longer or to increase sensitivity Setting them shorter Of course the alarm event will follow the detection some time around the timeout but the difference depends strongly on the observed scenery 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording This section describes how to schedule iCAT video analysis operation and how to define the related event based recording Here are the steps lg 110 10 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual In the camera tree select the camera for which you want to program archive recording Go to the Scheduling dialog by clicking on Next at the bottom In the menu select Modify selected camera or group Press the Add button below the Time intervals list and choose Video analysis iCAT from the type button labeled Change Now define the days and times when iCAT should be enabled for this camera You can activate individual days or with the All button the whole week at once Select hours and minutes from the time popup Please make sure that the Enable interval checkbox is marked because only
115. me gt lt WaitTime gt lt PresetName gt lt WaitTime gt where lt CID gt is the ID of a PTZ camera the ID is shown in CameraAdmin Properties dialog next to the camera name If lt CID gt is 0 then the MD field s camera is controlled MD and PTZ camera are the same lt PresetName gt is the name of a preset position as entered in the PTZ definitions lt WaitTime gt is the pause time in seconds starting from the time when the camera receives the positioning event There can be any number of lt PresetName gt lt WaitTimes gt pairs added Further MD triggered PTZ actions are blocked as long as a Sequence is running However control of PTZ camera can be taken manually then the automatic MD triggered PTZ control is suspended until the manual PTZ control is released For information on how to setup PTZ preset positions refer to 9 Working with PTZ cameras on page 66 Example Door ptz 4 Door 10 HomePos 3 58 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual will on an MD event with the Identifier Door move the PTZ camera with ID 4 to the preset position Door wait 10 seconds and move the camera to the preset HomePos and wait another 3 seconds The overall positioning time therefore is app 13 seconds From then on the PTZ camera is open to receive further MD triggered PTZ positioning commands 7 2 Motion detection in archive recordings VisoGuard supports server based motion detection not only in live streams b
116. mes not covered by a continuous recording schedule no manual recording button is shown 5 7 Working with round tours the Smart guard function VisoGuard allows you to make virtual round tours of views You can define round tours that contain certain views When a tour is started VisoGuard walks you through all the views by automatically showing up the views in the Online monitor This is like a virtual patrol of a security guard Smart guard function 5 7 1 Defining a round tour Steps to add a new round tour Choose Round tours from the view Control menu Now the Round tours dialog opens In the Round tours dialog push the button Add new round tour In the Tour name field enter the name of the round tour m Now you can select a view from the Views list and push the PP button to include it in the tour By pushing the KSI button you can remove a view from the tour You reorder views in the tour by pushing the Up 4 and Down buttons Please note You can have the same view several times at different locations in a round tour You can select multiple views in the Views list at once by holding the CTRL key while selecting the views 40 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 5 For each view you can set a Shuffle duration that determines how long in seconds this view is shown before VisoGuard automatically changes to the next view in the tour By pushing Set for all you can set the same duration for all view in the round t
117. n another view port Online monitor only Draw a zoom rectangle with the mouse Click into another view port Now the zoomed area is shown in the other view port You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle oO N 38 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 4 You can remove the zoom by clicking the rectangle with the mouse and pressing the Delete or Backspace key Alternatively you can drag the rectangle outside of the view port to remove it Removing a rectangle will also remove the zoomed view from the other view port Please note When PTZ control is enabled any mouse actions are taken for PTZ control In order to control the view port zooming hold down the CTRL key while using the mouse 5 6 Manual recording control in the Online Monitor In addition to programmed recordings you can also manually start and stop continuous recordings directly in the Online monitor When manual recording control is set up a recording button is shown in camera view ports in the Online monitor 5 6 1 Setting up manual recording control To enable recording control you must do 2 things e Enable the manual recording camera access right for the user e Setup a continuous recording schedule for the camera The continuous recording schedule that is active at the time when the user pushes the manual recording button defines the format of the recording Therefore you can also have different manual recording formats for different times in the day o
118. n around the phone to avoid false detections elsewhere but the region must be a bit larger than the phone allowing the robust detection of its contours The situation is the same in case of abandoned objects Abandoned objects which are partially located outside the region may not be detected e The objects which are apparently static stopped person who moved before person sitting in an office can also cause false alarms The detector tries to track moving objects and keep their position when they stop in order to ignore such objects during detection of really static ones However through the failures of the tracking such objects may be lost and wrongly classified as an abandoned one A stopped person who is lost by the tracker becomes the subject of removed abandoned classification after a given alarm timeout If it starts moving before the timeout reached there will be no false alarm raised The possibility of the above mentioned problem increases with the number of person in the scene as tracker reliability decreases or with people who only show movement rarely person working in an office In the former case you can increase the abandoned detection timeout in order to be more robust but in the latter one masking out the area where the apparently static person is should be the best e There are two alarm timeouts to be set One for abandoned and one for removed objects If the scenery is clear the interesting object is visible then the alar
119. n detection e Receive in camera motion detection events from the camera and store these events in the standard VisoGuard Event database these events can also be displayed in the Task bar e Receive pre and or post event images from the camera pushed by the camera and record these images in the standard VisoGuard camera archive e Optionally with receiving an in camera detection event start a server based post event recording of images and merging this recording with the in camera event images pushed by the camera This server based recording can have a much higher frame rate than the pictures pushed by the camera This allows a much better documentation of in camera events 7 3 2 Setting up in camera motion detection To configure VisoGuard for in camera motion detection follow these steps 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog Assuming that you have already defined the basic properties of the camera in VisoGuard select the camera in the camera tree 2 On the Properties dialog push the Next button at the bottom of the dialog until you reach the Defaults settings dialog Here you focus on the In camera motion detection settings 59 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual In camera motion detection Receive event images via FTP Receive event images via HTTP L Post recording length sec 0 Recording frequency In the menu choose Modify selected camera or group
120. n page 31 if you want to create a new user group first 3 Inthe menu select Add new user The Properties dialog opens to allow you to enter user data 4 Enter your user data in the corresponding fields of the dialog Use the following table as a guide Fields labeled in bold both in the dialog and in the table are mandatory all others are optional Field label Your input Login name This is a short name that the user will use to log in Full user name This is the complete name of the user Password Enter a password for the user The user can change this later on see 4 7 Changing the password on page 32 Re enter password Enter the password again for verification Secondary password Enable the checkbox and enter a secondary password if a secondary password is needed for logging in the user This is important for enforcing the four eyes principle for certain video operations Re enter sec password oe Enter the secondary password again for verification Forgot question Formulate a question that only the user can answer if he has forgotten his password 29 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual ie Field label Forgot answer SMS number E mail address Language Auto login after 1 min timeout PTZ priority 1 lowest 10 highest Max PTZ use time sec PTZ inactivity timeout sec Your input Provide the answer to the above password question If the user is to receive an SMS in the event of an alarm or f
121. n the menu select Add new definition In the Name field enter a designation for the position and then use the PTZ control elements to move to the desired position detailed explanation of control elements in Section 9 4 Controlling PTZ cameras on page 67 5 Click on Save to save your configuration Then you can repeat steps 3 to 5 to define additional PTZ positions 6 From the Online Monitor you can select these predefined positions see below 7 Double clicking on one of the predefined positions lets you position the camera Proceed similarly in order to change positions HPA 9 3 Defining PTZ routes In addition to individual PTZ positions you can also define position routes that can be followed on command A position route consists of a list of PTZ positions that are automatically sequentially followed and a duration per position Define a PTZ route as follows 1 Choose PTZ from the System administration menu This opens the PTZ dialog 2 From the camera tree select the PTZ camera whose PTZ route you want to program 3 Ifyou have not already defined PTZ positions that now appear in the list or you can create new positions now See the previous section for defining new positions 4 Click on the Next button at the bottom right This takes you to the Routes dialog whose layout resembles the Positions dialog above 5 In the menu select Add new definition In the Name field enter a designation for the route Optionally
122. n the same machine being connected to the same server in order for the feature to work the client will not be started automatically by LNT 13 6 4 Navigating in the layout hierarchy You can position to a layout by clicking its name in the layout hierarchy You can also jump to a connected layout by clicking a link field 13 6 5 Working with events in the layout navigation tool The layout navigation tool LNT also allows you to view and acknowledge VisoGuard events Please note Event handling will only work if the user has the rights to work with events When a new event occurs in VisoGuard then it is displayed in the Event list at the right side of the LNT window the Event list can be switched on and off in editing mode by choosing View gt Event list The Project settings define what happens when a new event is coming in see 13 6 7 Project settings on page 94 The layout that contains the primary control for related to the event can be exposed automatically and also the control that is related to the event can be highlighted blinking rectangle Additionally a longer description is displayed in the Event description field at the bottom of the window which also can be switched on and off in Editing mode by choosing View gt Event description You can acknowledge an event by pushing Acknowledge in the Event description field Acknowledged events will be removed from the Event list Pressing Cancel sets the state of the event to
123. nd confirm a File download progress dialog will show the state of the export You can cancel the export anytime by pushing Cancel Note To play back exported video sequences with Microsoft Media Player you need the DivX codec You can download this for free from www divx com divx 6 3 3 Exporting an archive recording in SAFE format RA a 52 In the Archive select a camera for the export In the Player view or in the Calendar view click the Export button 2 to open the Export dialog Choose SAFE All images from Export format Enter the file for the video sequence to be exported Mark the first checkbox if you want to overwrite a file of the same name that might exist Optionally you can create a Multi camera export synchronous video sequences by clicking on the Select camera button Tel This opens the camera tree in which you can select multiple cameras by holding the CTRL key while clicking on the cameras Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Enter an Export file label which should describe the exported scenes Optionally you may enter an Export file password This password is asked when the export file is executed played Caution Do not forget this password because otherwise you cannot replay this exported file When you click OK a file dialog will be opened asking where on your client computer you to want to save the file Once you select the location and confirm a File download progress dialog will show the state of the
124. ng depending on the video format and pre post event frame rate setting is done This can help you to tune your system to better fit your needs while reducing burden on the server and the camera For further information on which video 111 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual format is best for iCAT please refer also to 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iICAT on page 97 Please note If the recording event is not generated by iCAT then the recording behavior is the same as described here just iCAT is not analyzing the video stream Simple motion detection involves iCAT If both iCAT based and other event triggered recording is active at the same time iCAT recording parameters have priority for obtaining pre alarm streams Event based recording for iCAT in MJPEG format e Different frame rates for pre and post event recording VisoGuard obtains a QVGA stream for iCAT analyzing and also uses this stream for pre event recording In case of an iCAT based event or alarm VisoGuard switches to the frame rate and quality defined by the main recording settings post event Please note Depending on the camera there can be a small delay caused by the camera needed to switch from the pre event streaming format to the post event streaming format e The same frame rate for pre and post event recording VisoGuard obtains 1 stream of the main post event recording quality It also does iCAT analyzing based on this stream it actually sc
125. ng the value 1 or 2 will switch on AES encryption of the video recording Value 1 means the system will store the encryption key on a local server disk Value 2 will store the key on a USB device formatted with FAT32 which has to be plugged into the server If the device is not accessible then archive access is not possible Prior to inserting the USB device a writable directory nek must me created on the device this can be done under Windows for example VisoGuard will search for this directory and store the key file in it After the USB device is detected and the key has been written to it the first time an event with following text is generated IDB encryption started USB device can be removed now for creating backup copy At this time the USB device can be removed from the server and a backup copy of the directory nek can be created Note that the stick must be inserted again before any archive query is started Warning Loss of the encryption key stored on the USB device will make archive access impossible Also encryption needs much more CPU power than no encryption see also 1 3 VisoGuard data security on page 4 To modify any of these values select Modify host in the menu set the values and then press 78 Save Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 11 Working with interconnected VisoGuard servers VisoGuard allows you to work with the resources of interconnected remote distributed VisoGuard servers The c
126. niquely identifies the remote server The ID of an VisoGuard server can be obtained by reading its own entry under the Host Admin tab 2 Now you can define what you want to do with the remote VisoGuard server Set options according to your requirements Field label Your input Send local events to Check this option if you want that your local events are sent to the remote server remote host Import of cameras from Check this option if you want to import cameras from the remote 79 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Field label Your input remote server enabled server Export local cameras to Check this option if you want to export cameras of your server to remote server the remote server If this option is not enabled the remote server cannot access your cameras Monitor remote server Check this option if you want to monitor the status of the remote status server in System information dialog Upgrade software on Check this option if you want to allow automatic distributed software remote server upgrade upgrades of the remote server initiated by your current server In slave such a case your current local server is the upgrade master and the remote host the upgrade slave For details about distributed upgrades please refer to the manual Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration Accept software upgrades Check this option if you want to accept automatic distributed from remote server software upgrades of the cu
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128. o fers2 moton event has apened on he 4 120 an ODN 3 gt hoo ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 can 3 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 can YAA lt gt 100 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam 02 2011 19 58 39 4 1100 _llems21 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam Ti F Each client can have multiple event lists for example one that is sorted chronologically and another one that is sorted according to event priorities In the client preferences accessible via Client preferences in the Observer menu you can define for each event list what columns are to be displayed and whether acknowledged events should stay in the list or should disappear automatically which is the default behavior 61 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual The position of the event lists inside client windows and further layout options can be defined as described in 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 17 You can sort the event list according to column values by just clicking on the column title Little arrows after the title indicate the sorting order ascending or descending Clicking a column title again will change the sorting order For example you can sort the list according to event priority by clicking on the Priority column heading In an event list columns can be rearranged by clicking on a column title and dragging it with the mouse to the new location Unseen events
129. ocation by following these steps 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 With a mouse click choose the camera or group you want to move 3 Inthe menu select Move camera or group A new dialog appears that requires you to enter the password 4 Enter the password After you enter the correct password a camera group dialog is opened showing the camera groups 5 Inthe newly opened camera groups dialog select the group where you want to move the camera or group to and press Select Now the camera or group is moved to the new location and the camera tree is updated 3 7 Changing the port mapping of analog cameras This section is only valid for analog cameras For analog cameras a port must be defined where the camera is connected to at the video capture card or the video server Sometimes the port mapping of analog cameras needs to be changed but it is difficult to do that physically by changing the cabling To help the situation VisoGuard can change the port mapping in the software There are two ways for doing that e Either go to the Camera Administration and manually switch the port there For this however you need to know exactly which camera is connected to which port e You can also swap the ports in the Online Monitor This has the advantage that you see the video pictures and therefore you can identify the correct ports visually In order to swap the ports of two ana
130. offers the unique Transcoding feature see 2 5 VisoGuard Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections on page 19 1 4 1 Multi streaming multiple parallel video streams from the camera Some cameras are capable of providing multiple parallel video streams to VisoGuard This can be helpful for example when online viewing and recording is to be done in different formats e g different sizes and frame rates or for optimizing iCAT video analytics performance see 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 97 Usually MJPEG cameras can deliver several MJPEG streams while MPEG cameras MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG usually can deliver only 1 or 2 MPEG streams and some camera types can deliver several MJPEG streams in addition to the MPEG stream s However there are a few important restrictions with multi streaming e Some cameras have performance limitations in providing multiple streams depending on the streaming format resolution and frame rate We found out that some cameras just stop streaming when the streaming processors of the camera get overloaded by certain resolution and frame rates settings Please refer to the camera data sheet and documentation e Inthe current version VisoGuard supports 1 format setting for MPEG streams MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG and multiple format settings for MJPEG streams Please note Please refer to camera data sheet and documentation for camera limitations Also the do
131. og Select a camera and in the menu choose Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Removed abandoned object which will expose the configuration settings Under the camera preview choose the Rectangle or Polygon check box Now you can draw the field with the mouse in the preview pane in which you want to detect removed or abandoned objects For a polygon you just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You close the polygon by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse Here is an example of such a field Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual _ Rectangle Polygon Please note The size of the region for removed abandoned objects should be at least 20 larger than the objects you want to detect Select whether you want to Detect removed objects Detect abandoned objects or both In the field Min stay time for removed abandoned objects sec you can enter a minimum time a recognized object must stay before a remove or abandoned detection on the object and a corresponding event is triggered In the field Minimum size removed abandoned objects area in pix you can constrain the object size for the event trigger You can limit the counting only to certain object sizes certain aspect ratios and a certain speed Currently those measures are definable in pixels please keep in mind that the resolution iCAT works on is either CIF or QVGA depending on the aspect ratio of the camera Zero value
132. oing something with the contents of an encrypted stream means decryption and therefore higher CPU overhead For example doing video analytics with an encrypted video stream means that is has to be decrypted at the server before processing Likewise storing an unencrypted stream in an encrypted video database means that it has to be encrypted at the server before storing Likewise displaying an encrypted video stream at the client means more CPU overhead at the client because it has to be decrypted On the other hand simply storing an already encrypted video stream coming from the camera does not need more CPU at the server than storing an unencrypted video stream 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression VisoGuard supports video streaming in several standards e Motion JPEG often also referred to as MJPEG e MPEG 4 streaming e H 264 streaming also known as MPEG 4 AVC e MxPEG streaming this is a streaming standard specially developed by www mobotix com for their IP cameras The big difference between the various streaming methods is the way how the image data are compressed and transferred The selected streaming method has great influence on e the bandwidth needed for transmission between cameras and server but also between servers and clients e the CPU load at the server and the client induced by compression and decompression and e the storage requirements for recording For low bandwidth client server connections VisoGuard
133. ollers Type indicates the type of the partition DB is a database holding configuration and event data and I is an image partition that holds the actual video image data Status indicates whether there is a failure on the partition Such a failure needs to be reported to your VisoGuard Administrator Capacity indicates the size of the partition in MB Used shows how much space of the partition is used Click on the Back button to leave the server details dialog and go back to the list of servers Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 10 1 3 Restarting VisoGuard and rebooting the server 1 2 Choose System information from the System administration menu This opens the System information dialog Select a server in the table In the System menu you have the following actions available Stop VisoGuard system This stops all video system processes but does not shut down the server Switch off server This shuts the server down Reboot server This reboots the server 10 2 Setting VisoGuard server parameters VisoGuard allows you to set several server parameters To access them follow these steps 1 2i Choose Host admin from the System administration menu This opens the Host admin dialog Select your own server indicated by bold face default is netavis Here you see the Hostname Network name or IP address and VisoGuard Host ID of your server are read only The VisoGuard Host ID is needed for working with distributed
134. on and Light switched off to detect abrupt lighting changes like when somebody switches the light on or off You can also enter values in the Brightness high limit and Brightness high limit fields to detect slower lighting changes like during sunrise and sundown If you leave these values empty then slower lighting change detection will be disabled 5 In the Identifier text field enter a name for this definition 6 Push Save to save your definition 106 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 You can also choose a specific Icon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 2 You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 8 Handling events on page 61 3 The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow yo
135. oncept is similar to accessing files on a remote file server You can import single cameras or whole groups of cameras from other VisoGuard servers and you can also export your locally defined cameras to other VisoGuard servers You can work with remote cameras as if they would be local e g you can also access their archive modify their parameters or even add new cameras to remote sites Before you can do any of these things you first have to make both servers known to each other You can do that by adding the other server as remote server on each of the machines The next section describes how to do that Please note This chapter just provides a basic introduction to working with interconnected servers For further details on setting up and administrating a distributed AS system please refer to the manual Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Distributed AS Administration 11 1 Adding and defining a remote VisoGuard server 1 Choose Host admin from the System administration menu This opens the Host admin dialog In the menu select Add host Fill in the basic information of the desired remote VisoGuard host server Field label Your input Hostname This is the name you give to the remote VisoGuard server It does not necessarily have to match the actual name of the remote server Network name or IP This is the network name or IP address of the remote VisoGuard address server Comment A descriptive text Observer Host ID This is an internal ID that u
136. only the top point of the mounted camera tree appears in red color 81 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual YI Xperts cameras O Digital Came G axs x AXIS 2100 a AXIS 2120 a AXIS 2130 a AXIS 205 1 i Panasonic a Panasonic KX HCM230 a Panasonic WY NS320 a Panasonic W NP472 D Mobotix L a Sirasse i Analog Cams Y Frame Grabber o Panasonic NP472 analog a SAMSUNG SDC 240 analog a PTZ netavis hu 5 With imported cameras you can work the same way as with local cameras For example you can display them in a view port in the Monitor please refer to 5 2 Selecting cameras on page 35 11 3 Working with events of remote servers VisoGuard servers can forward their events to other servers Such forwarded events are stored in the event database of the generating server itself and also in the event database of the server s that receive the events Event entries in the event database of remote servers look the same as local events they just start with the remote server s name and not with the name of the local server The same kind of search and listing is available as with local events In order to receive events from another VisoGuard server following prerequisites must be fulfilled e The servers must know of each other 77 1 Adding and defining a remote VisoGuard server on page 79 e The server that exports events must have the option Send local events to remote server set 11 1 Adding and defining
137. ontrol dialog that lets you define the handling of optional I O contacts of your camera If you do not want to use I O contacts you can just jump to the next step Set your values Field label Your input Input handling enabled Select this check box if you want to process the state of the digital input contact port of the camera 25 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Field label Your input Input poll interval msec The poll interval defines how often the state of the input port is checked Minimum time is 500 milliseconds Output handling enabled Select this check box if you want to enable switching the digital output port of the camera from within view port menu 7 Push the Save button at the bottom of the dialog 3 2 2 Duplicating an existing camera Duplicating an existing camera creates an exact duplicate of the camera with all settings copied This is useful when you have more than one camera of the same type or with equal similar settings like recording or video analytics settings With duplicating camera you can dramatically reduce the set up time for systems with many cameras with similar settings Here is how you can do that 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the camera you would like to clone 3 Choose Duplicate camera from the menu Now a new camera named as the existing camera with copy appended has been created
138. ool 13 6 1 Peeking live video of mapped cameras The default behavior of some camera icons is that you can peek at live video of mapped cameras by moving the mouse pointer over a camera icon Then the live video stream will be shown on top of the layout As soon as you move the mouse pointer away from the icon the stream disappears This behavior can be changed with the Modify control icon dialog see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 88 13 6 2 Showing a camera in the VisoGuard client When you single click a camera icon in LNT then the corresponding camera will be shown in full size in the VisoGuard client This behavior can be changed with the Modify control icon dialog see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 88 Please note that the VisoGuard client has to be running on the same machine being connected to the same server in order for the feature to work the client will not be started automatically by LNT 13 6 3 Positioning to the camera recording archive in the VisoGuard client When you double click a camera icon in LNT then recording archive of the corresponding camera will be shown in the VisoGuard client running on the same machine This behavior can be changed with 92 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual the Modify control icon dialog see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 88 Please note that the VisoGuard client has to be running o
139. ose a specific Ilcon shown and Sound played for the event when it is shown in the Event list Or you can choose to have no icon or no sound associated with the event You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event see 8 Handling events on page 61 for further details on event priorities The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow you to selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 Push Save to save your definition Please note e If you add a new ICAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 e Ifa definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 2 You can also choose a specific lcon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the defaul
140. our 6 Push Save to save your changes and OK to leave the dialog Later on you can modify an existing round tour by opening the Round tours dialog and then choose an existing round tour from the Round tours list and push Modify round tour A tour can be deleted by opening the Round tours dialog and then choose an existing round tour from the Round tours list and push Delete round tour Then you have to enter your password to confirm the delete 5 7 2 Working with round tours The Smart guard function After you have defined a round tour a new Round tour selector appears in the Online monitor To activate the round tour just choose its name from the Round tour selector This activates the automatic walkthrough all of the views in the round tour Smart Guard function The name of the round tour now appears in green to show that it is active You can stop the tour by choosing a view from the View selector the Round tour selector will change its color to normal to show that no tour currently is active 5 8 Copying views between users lf there are several users in a system it can be a lot of work to create views for each user individually In order to help VisoGuard offers the possibility to copy complete views including all view settings or even all views of an administrator user to another user Important is that the user who copies the views to other users must have user administration rights User admin Access to User administrat
141. passwords are stored in VisoGuard Each 2 minutes the list of users is reloaded from the Active Directory LDAP server Each time when a user that is defined in Active Directory LDAP logs in to VisoGuard the password is checked authenticated with the Active Directory LDAP server This means that at login time an active connection to the Active Directory LDAP server must be present Also note that no VisoGuard specific information is stored in Active Directory LDAP 4 8 2 Setting up an Active Directory LDAP connection First you need to define a user group to which you want to import the AD LDAP users 32 5 6 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog In the user tree select a group that should serve as the container for the users imported from AD LDAP The group must be empty it must not contain any local users If you do not have an appropriate group you can create a new user group by selecting the parent group under which you want to create the new user group Then choose Add new group from the menu supply a name and push Save Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu Select the check box Users of this group are imported from Active Directory Now you can define the privileges and camera access rights of the imported users by going to the Privileges dialog and the Camera access rights dialog push the Next button to move to these dialog
142. r them on each of the following frames while continuously creating new points to keep adapting to a new scenery A camera moved event occurs when a given number of these points are lost for a while The focus change detector acts like the auto focus algorithms in digital cameras It estimates the average sharpness of the picture and produces an event if this sharpness changes abruptly A focus lost event is produced if the sharpness of the picture decreases below a threshold and a focus gained event if the sharpness is increased above a threshold Both thresholds are based on average sharpness values of previous frames The camera covered detector uses a brightness analyzer that calculates the average brightness of the picture for each frame and if something strange happens tries to find out what has happened light switched off light switched on or just a person in dark clothes passed by It does so by analyzing a sample of average brightness values collected in previous frames The result of the these three detectors are combined to give the final alarm event camera moved camera covered focus lost gained brightness change Possible reasons of missed or wrong detections As mentioned above the camera movement detector works with high contrast points on the picture and the focus change detector checks the sharpness of the picture measuring the sharpness of edges Logos or date and time text fields generated and placed on the picture b
143. r week Enable the manual recording camera access right Here is how to set the camera access right for manual recording see 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 for a general description on how to set camera access rights 1 Login as administrator user or another user with the right to modify user data 2 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog Select the user or group for which you want to enable manual recording control Click the Next button twice to get to the Camera Access Rights dialog Select the camera or camera group for which you want to enable manual recording control Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu Enable the right Manual recording control from Online monitor by choosing Enabled from the pop up menu 8 Push Save to save your changes oS eS SS Set up a continuous recording schedule In order to use manual recording control for a camera you have to define a continuous recording schedule please refer to 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 43 for a general description of setting up schedules for continuous recordings 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the camera for which you want to set up the recording schedule 3 Atthe bottom of the screen click on the Next button twice This takes you to the Scheduling dialog If you are setting
144. rdings against automatic deletion Normally VisoGuard automatically deletes recordings that are older than the Requested recording period in order to free space for new recordings For cases where you want to keep certain scenes longer than the requested recording period you can protect arbitrary periods against automatic deletion Here is how you can do that 1 In the Archive go to the Calendar view and select a camera 2 Inthe calendar select the period you want to protect against automatic deletion 3 Press Protect selected images against deletion Now the color of the selected period in calendar turns to a different color which shows that the images are protected To unprotect a protected period you must select this period in the Calendar view and Press Unprotect selected images 51 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Caution Please be careful when using this feature since the protected recording periods will never be deleted automatically by VisoGuard This means that the space will be locked as long as you keep them protected 6 3 Exporting recordings images and video sequences VisoGuard allows you to export individual images and video sequences in various formats With the SAFE format you can also export synchronous video sequences of up to 16 cameras simultaneously 6 3 1 Exporting a single JPEG image the current frame opr ey S In the Archive select a camera for the export In the Player view or in the Calendar
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146. ribed MPEG s basic principle is to compare two compressed images to be transmitted over the network and using the first compressed image as a reference image called an frame only sending the parts of following images B and P frames that differ from the reference image A viewing client will then reconstruct all images based on the reference image and the difference data At the cost of higher complexity the result of applying MPEG video compression is that the amount of data transmitted across the network is less than that of Motion JPEG This is illustrated below where only information about the differences in the second and third frames is transmitted ZS H 264 and MxPEG all work very similar to MPEG 4 whereby H 264 for example needs only about 60 of the bandwidth of MPEG 4 for roughly the same video quality However this efficiency does not come for free Encoding and decoding H 264 needs more CPU power than MPEG 4 A general rule is that the higher the compression factor the heavier the CPU burden in the server and in the clients Therefore there is always a tradeoff between bandwidth utilization and CPU power needed 1 4 4 Advantages and disadvantages of Motion JPEG and MPEG MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Due to its simplicity Motion JPEG MJPEG is a good choice for use in many applications JPEG is a widely available standard in many systems often by default It s a simple compression decompression technique which means
147. rrent server slave initiated by the upgrade master remote server master In such a case your current local server is the upgrade slave and the remote host the upgrade master For details about distributed upgrades please refer to the manual Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration Request license from Check this option if your current VisoGuard server should check out remote server license licenses from the remote server license master For details about master floating network licenses please refer to the manual Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration 3 Click on Save to save your settings Now you are ready to import cameras or camera groups from a remote VisoGuard server 11 2 Working with cameras of another server In order to work with cameras from another VisoGuard server following prerequisites must be fulfilled e The servers must know each other see 11 1 Adding and defining a remote VisoGuard server on page 79 e The server that exports cameras must have the option Export local cameras to remote server set see 11 1 Adding and defining a remote VisoGuard server on page 79 e The server that works with cameras of another server must have the option Import of cameras from remote server enabled set see 11 1 Adding and defining a remote VisoGuard server on page 79 After you mount remote cameras you can work with them as if they would be connected to this server You can access
148. rties to scheduling to I O control to Image settings Now you should see the Video parameters dialog e Analog 7 Video parameters pip HIMES ith pil dh MAE hh Mae ad 7 i iii ji A 1 Aa aaam Contrast 50 F Saturation al Original values Previous Cancel 4 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group and then modify the brightness Contrast and Saturation values according to your needs Please be aware that light conditions may change during the day 5 To store the settings press Save 3 6 Working with camera groups Camera groups are a powerful means for managing and organizing cameras 3 6 1 Creating a new camera group 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the group in which you want to create the new camera group 3 Inthe menu select Add new camera group which will open new dialog that allows you to enter the name and description for the new camera group 27 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 4 Optionally select the Use group name as camera name qualifier checkbox If this checkbox is selected then the name of the camera group is displayed as prefix to the camera name e g group name camera name 5 Press Save to create the new camera group 3 6 2 Moving a camera or camera group in the camera tree A camera or a group of cameras in the camera tree can be moved to another l
149. s e Start Stop motion detection enables or disables motion detection of the camera in VisoGuard It actually marks or unmarks the Enabled checkbox in the camera admin s Motion detection dialog Please be aware that there must be at least one detection field definition for the camera for this to work refer to 7 7 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection on page 56 for details e Start Stop analog video decode allows the control of special devices that decode IP based network video signals to analog video signals This is useful for example for security center video walls that are driven by analog video signals The configuration of these special devices must be done in configuration files please refer to the Release Notes or to the customization documentation Events You can also modify the behavior of control icons for certain events like Connection to camera lost or Motion detected 3 Click OK to save changes 13 5 2 Adding a new camera control 1 Switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the customize button at the right side of the tool bar In the control icon list click the right mouse button and choose Add control from the pop up menu This opens the Add new control icon dialog which is essentially the same as the Modify control icon dialog above Here you can define the icon name and image and which actions are to be performed on certain mouse opera
150. s Push Save Once you have enabled a group for AD LDAP import you must setup the connection to an AD LDAP server 1 5 Choose Active directory configuration from the menu This opens the Active directory configuration dialog this dialog actually is part of the Host admin dialog In this dialog you can e define the connection to an AD LDAP server e define an AD LDAP filter to match a certain AD group set of users for importing to VisoGuard e define the Tag mapping between AD LDAP and VisoGuard Choose Modify host from the menu Under Connection parameters define the filters for matching a certain AD group set of users for importing to VisoGuard Under Observer group name you must enter the name of a user group in VisoGuard for which you enabled the Users of this group are imported from Active Directory Please note that AD servers usually can be accessed at Port 389 With Test connection you can check whether the server can be accessed with these values Under Directory parameters define the AD LDAP filters to match a certain AD group set of users for importing to VisoGuard The filter fields Search base AD group name Directory address are available for further constraining the matched user group in AD and need to contain the fully qualified strings in AD e g OU Video users DC netavis DC net In Observer group name please add the name of the VisoGuard group where the users are to be imported Select or create the
151. s can access and share the same projects and by thus layouts and settings On each layout you can place camera control icons that correspond to cameras on an VisoGuard server The camera icons on layouts are interactive i e trigger certain actions when you move the mouse over them or click on them Such actions can be to show camera live image streams or its recording archive in the corresponding VisoGuard client running on the same client workstation On layouts you can also define polygon shaped zones that group certain cameras together and that allow for smart ways of highlighting on events and for good synchronization with the VisoGuard client Additionally you can also display and acknowledge VisoGuard events in the tool All information used by the LNT e g project and layout definitions background images and camera mappings are stored on the VisoGuard server Users can use the same LNT information as long as they load the same LNT project regardless on which client they work In a typical installation you would run the VisoGuard client on one screen and the layout navigation tool on another screen see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 17 for details However you can of course run both tools on the same screen as well 13 2 Installing the layout navigation tool The layout navigation is available only in the locally installed client which currently runs on MS Windows platforms only see 2 7 Introduction t
152. s in these fields mean that there is no constraint Hint for constraining the object size The size is the area of the object in pixels and the speed is also measured in pixels per second To know what object sizes or speeds you want to filter it is helpful to watch a few objects passing the triggers and switch on the object markers These markers show the size and speed of the object in pixels These are exactly the same measures that you can use for the trigger Here is an example of an object marker Object ID is 10 object size is 9110 pixels speed is 208 pixels sec The section 14 4 1 Displaying iCAT information in the Online monitor and when playing recordings on page 113 shows you how to view object markers In the Identifier text field enter a name for this event trigger Push Save to save your definition Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated 109 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 You can also choose a specific Ilcon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event t
153. s in a view the same menu is also available via the View control menu Set parameters of all view ports Also in the Archive player you also have an iCAT button with the same menu The iCAT video statistics menu allows you to select the following statistics to display For the display of those Visual Statistics you can choose between Show always Show on mouse over and Do not show In the screen dump above you see an example of the overall object count statistics in an entrance situation Cold colors mean few object counts and got colors mean high object counts When you move the mouse over the camera view you can see can see the actual object count for each segment of the view Above the count in the middle of the screen would be 302 objects As acomparison here you see the Visual Statistics of the stopped object counts of the same camera ENTRY _azdis 5 fps objekt stoppt aut teppich 0 OO 0 747 counter d Q 0 H 0 0 0 T 128 Notice the difference in coloring You see that people only very seldom stop in the middle of the carpet but stop very often in front of the welcome counter Resetting the Visual Statistics To reset the statistics to zero follow these steps 115 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Choose the camera and then the object tracking region In the menu select Modify selected definition Push
154. s that can be modified camera controls and zone controls the link field control cannot be modified LNT lets you modify several aspects of the appearance and behavior of these control icons e Icon image and appearance e What happens when you move the mouse over a control icon or when you click on it e What happens on certain events originated by VisoGuard related to cameras or zones Also you can create new control icons with your own icon images 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior 1 Switch to editing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing button at the right side of the tool bar 2 Inthe control icon list click on a camera icon with the right mouse button and choose Modify from the pop up menu This opens the Modify control dialog 88 Modify Control Icon Name Indoor right Icon filename icon 1b png Actions Double click Mouse over Mouse over delay Context menu actions Show live stream in LNT Start continuous recording Event Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Stop motion detection Stop analog video decode Start motion detection Show archive calendar in Observer Client Show live in Observer Client Decode video to analog Stop continuous recording Action property Motion detected Color E Opacity 255 Interval Connection to camera restored Color Opacity 255 Interval Connection to camera lost Color ia Opacity 255 Interval
155. s works for JPEG streams only and does not affect any MPEG recordings Additionally you can see the Actual recording period days hours the Storage used by this camera MB the Total storage space MB which shows the overall storage space of the server and the Free storage space MB which is the available space for new recordings on this server 10 Click on Save to save your settings As soon as the scheduled time is reached recording is started with these settings 6 1 2 Scheduling video analysis iCAT operation and recording For information on how to schedule video analysis iCAT operation and recording please refer to section 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 6 1 3 Operation of the VisoGuard dynamic storage management In the Scheduling dialog you can specify the Requested recording period property that defines how long recordings are to be kept by VisoGuard Any recordings that are older than the requested recording period are automatically deleted as long as you do not manually protect them from deletion see 6 2 8 Protection of recordings against automatic deletion on page 51 For cases like motion detection based recording it can be very difficult if not impossible to estimate the required storage space and therefore space for all requested recordings could be too short To help with this hopefully rare case VisoGuard uses an intelligent storage management process This process always tries to store a
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157. seen visited but does not acknowledge tt Please note that for each camera a primary control can be defined that is exposed when a new event is generated You can set the primary flag for a camera icon by right clicking on the icon in editing mode and choosing Primary from the pop up menu Generally events in LNT can have the following states indicated by different colors of the event entry e New unseen events are shown as grey if it is selected then it is shown in green e Seen visited events are shown in blue e Acknowledged events are removed from the list When there are several new events then LNT offers you to see visit them one by one The exact behavior of the visiting and how the event state can be set to seen visited can be defined in the Project settings see 13 6 7 Project settings on page 94 You can for example mark a new event as seen and jump to the next event by moving the mouse over the blinking control 13 6 6 Camera status display LNT allows you to display certain states of cameras in the mapped camera and zone control icons Examples for states that can be displayed are recording motion detection active broken connections etc An example of a status display is i ad as 93 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual This camera currently is recording and has motion detection enabled To modify the status display settings follow these steps 1 Switch to editing mode by choosing Proje
158. shows you how to view object markers In the Identifier text field enter a name for this event trigger Push Save to save your definition Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 2 You can also choose a specific icon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 8 Handling events on page 61 The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow you to selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 14 3 4 Defining sabotage detection iCAT offers intelligent features for detecting three types of camera sabotage actions 104 Camera defocused Camera covered Camera moved Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manu
159. soGuard s own server based motion detection The images are analyzed by the VisoGuard server The advantage of this method is that it works with any camera even old cameras The disadvantage might be that if there are many cameras that transfer their images to the server for analysis the bandwidth of the network could be burdened and also the server could be overloaded e In camera motion detection The images are analyzed in the camera and only when detection occurs an event and image data are sent to the VisoGuard server that then stores the event and the images in its archive The advantage of this method is that the network and the server are not burdened The disadvantage is that it works only with special cameras that offer this feature and that the motion detection settings have to be programmed in the camera directly 7 1 VisoGuard s own server based motion detection The simple motion detection feature of VisoGuard can recognize motion by detecting pixel changes between video frames Such a detection can then trigger the following predefined actions e Entry of events in an Event list optionally accompanied by an acoustic signal e Changes in recording behavior e g higher recording rate if that has been programmed see 6 Working with archive recordings on page 43 Here you find the steps how to configure the parameters for simple motion detection 7 1 1 Preparation Before you begin to configure a motion detection definition
160. space is short checkbox For further details about these recording parameters please refer to sections 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 43 and 6 1 3 Operation of the VisoGuard dynamic storage management on page 45 Push the Save button to store your changes Now you have to configure your camera for pushing the in camera events and images to the VisoGuard server Since the steps for doing that are very camera specific you must consult the document Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Supported Video Sources To program the camera s detection algorithm please consults its user manual Note After setting up the camera do not forget to check and set the date and time of the camera to reflect your current time 60 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 8 Handling events VisoGuard can record and display events of various types They can be camera related events like video analytics events archive access by a user or camera failures but also system related events like user logon and logoff Events are displayed in Event lists of the client and are stored in the central event database of the VisoGuard server were they can also be queried The can have several properties that depend on the type of the event Event priorities All events also have an event priority that defines the relative importance of events The default event priority is 100 Informational events have a lower priority of 50 system and camera malfunction events have
161. speed Press the Stop button Mto end playback Manual playback By clicking and moving the green Playback marker you can control the playback of images manually You can select the size of the playback by clicking the Original size button at the lower left of the Player dialog Here you have the possibility to choose from various sizes 6 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings VisoGuard allows you to zoom view ports in the Online monitor and in the Archive player Basically you have two ways to zoom a view port or a recording in the Archive player Zooming with the mouse wheel 1 Just move the mouse pointer over a view port and turn the mouse wheel The view port will zoom accordingly 49 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 2 Youcan move the zoomed area in a view port by dragging it with the mouse 3 Use the mouse wheel again to zoom out Zooming by drawing a zoom rectangle 1 With the mouse draw a rectangle in a view port 2 Click in this rectangle which will cause the view port to zoom accordingly 3 You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle You can also modify its size by turning the mouse wheel 4 Click outside the rectangle to return to normal not zoomed view 5 You can remove the zoom rectangle by clicking into it with the mouse and pressing the Delete or Backspace key Alternatively you can drag the rectangle outside of the view port to remove it You can also have multiple zooming r
162. ssing speed in fps of iCAT e The streaming format see above An VisoGuard server running with iCAT on standard not high end desktop server hardware can easily handle approximately 10 iCAT enabled cameras with standard settings Additional CPU power like quad core enhanced RAM speed and bigger L2 caches help to boost the ICAT performance Multi streaming operation with iCAT As indicated above iCAT normally needs much more CPU power for processing MPEG streams MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG than for processing MJPEG streams Therefore VisoGuard can pull two parallel streams from the camera if the camera supports that one MPEG stream for live viewing and recording and 1 additional MJPEG stream for iCAT operation In the Default settings dialog in Camera Admin the checkbox Multi stream allowed enables or disable this dual stream iCAT processing see also 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 lf this checkbox is selected and live viewing or recording is active with an MPEG stream with a frame rate of more than 5 fps or a resolution bigger than VGA 640x480 pixels then VisoGuard will try pull a second MJPEG stream in QVGA fine from the camera for iCAT processing please note that this stream will be pulled even if the checkbox Allow JPEG streaming is deselected The frame rate of this second stream depends on the iCAT function Please note Dual streaming iCAT processing will not be activated automatically after s
163. st of available windows for deletion 2 4 5 Positioning a window on a certain screen Positioning a window on a certain screen is very easy With the mouse just drag the window to the screen and drop it there You can also maximize the window on the screen All the window states will be remembered between sessions This happens on a per user basis which means when the user is logging in on a different client workstation he will have the same window setup as on the first client workstation 2 5 VisoGuard Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections The unique VisoGuard Transcoding technology reduces the necessary bandwidth for video streams to a fraction of the usual values Especially high resolution cameras can thus be streamed from server to clients over low bandwidth wide areas network WAN connections without loss of quality Therefore even megapixel cameras can be operated over very low bandwidth connections that would normally prevent their operation The technology works for all cameras streaming resolutions and formats including MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Additional CPU resources are needed at the server and at the client for transcoding streams Transcoding can be set up by limiting bandwidth for live video and recording playback streams at the server level defined in 10 2 Setting VisoGuard server parameters on page 75 Important Although transcoding works with all streaming formats the best results and least
164. streams causes additional delays because it works on groups of pictures or frames so called GOPs As a rule of thumb iCAT adds a delay of approximately 1 GOP duration Depending on the actual MPEG cameras model A GOP duration is between 0 5 and 1 sec see also 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 Analog cameras that are connected either via video server or directly connected to an VisoGuard server with a grabber card installed are also supported of course iCAT generally works on CIF or QVGA or nearest resolution This is a good balance between accuracy and CPU overhead If there is a continuous recording enabled for the camera iCAT uses this stream for its algorithms and does not cause additional bandwidth If the size of the stream is bigger than CIF iCAT downscales it to CIF or QVGA or nearest resolution Any pixel measures that are available in iCAT are relative to this resolution Future releases will also allow you to select higher resolutions for the iCAT algorithms CPU load of iCAT performance issues iCAT runs on the server and works very efficiently The CPU overhead caused by iCAT is directly proportional to the following aspects see also 14 2 Basic iCAT concepts on page 97 e The size area of all the active tracking regions of all cameras of a server This means that optimizing the tracking regions will save CPU power The number and shape of event triggers is negligible e The video proce
165. t Tripwire iCAT 100 122 Smartphones mobile devices 83 Statistics events 64 iCAT Visual Statistics 113 Storage management in archive 45 Streaming formats 6 changing in view port 37 iCAT video analytics 96 Synchronous playback of mutiple cameras in archive 50 T Time zone of server 75 Time zoomimg in archive 50 Transcoding tm for low bandwidth connections 19 setting up 77 Tripwire for object counting iCAT 100 U Upgrading remote servers 82 URL controlling via URL requests 77 Users Active Directory LDAP 32 adding 29 camera access rights 31 copying view between 41 groups 31 info about logged in 31 managing 29 privileges 30 V VGA 8 Video analytics 95 video annotations 116 Video compression 6 MPEG vs MJPEG 6 Transcoding for low bandwidth connections 19 View port define crop view 38 View ports creating 34 quality settings 37 zooming camera views 38 49 Views copying between users 41 Online monitor 34 round tours 40 settings 37 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Visual Statistics ICAT 113 W Web pages embedding live video streams 116 Windows create a separate Event list window 18 deleting 18 modifying layouts 18 Z Zones in layout navigation LNT 87 Zooming in an Online monitor view port 38 49 in SAFE exports 53 of PTZ cameras 69 123
166. t priority see also 8 Handling events on page 61 The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow you to selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 14 3 3 Defining an event trigger for object starting and stopping In addition to object counting iCAT also offers to detect stopping and starting objects in a defined field Here are the steps for creating an event trigger for object starting and stopping 1 oF pr PS Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Select a camera and make sure that you have a suitable object tracking region defined that allows for object counting see 14 3 1 Defining an object tracking region on page 99 In the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Event trigger which will expose the configuration settings Under the camera preview choose the Rectangle or Polygon check box Now you can draw the field with the mouse in the preview pane For a polygon you just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You close the polygon by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse Here is an example of a tracking region Now select on what object behavior you want to trigger an event When an Object is crossing field when an Object starts moving in field
167. t when it is shown in the event task bar 2 You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 8 Handling events on page 61 3 The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow you to selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 14 3 5 Defining simple motion detection Prior to release R1 12 VisoGuard offered simple motion detection only based on a detection of changed pixels between video frames detection cycles Simple motion detection does not require an object tracking region For more details on setting up and working with this simple motion detection please refer to 7 Working with simple motion detection on page 56 14 3 6 Detecting a lighting change Please follow these steps to enable lighting change detection Please note For lighting change detection an object tracking region is NOT needed 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Choose acamera and in the menu select Add new definition 3 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Lighting change detection which will expose the configuration settings 4 Select the checkboxes for Light switched
168. tched on Otherwise only the recording will start but no event will be stored in the database You can override this setting for individual iCAT events selectively in the corresponding iCAT definition e g 14 3 2 Defining an event trigger for people and object counting Smart Tripwire on page 101 For all other recording settings please refer to 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 43 Push Save Please note iCAT triggered event generation and recording is only active if there is an enabled iCAT interval and there is at least one enabled iCAT definition assigned Outside of this time interval there is no recording or event generation Furthermore recording is started only if either of the fields for Pre post event recording sec is bigger than zero Further considerations for pre and post event recording VisoGuard allows you to define the frame rate and quality of event based recordings If you want to save video streams for events generated by the video analytics toolkit iCAT please keep in mind that VisoGuard needs to analyze the video stream that it later stores Some cameras have limitations when providing multiple video streams at different qualities and frame rates Therefore VisoGuard tries to retrieve only 1 video stream with 1 quality and frame rate setting whenever possible This also helps to keep the CPU load for the server and the camera at a minimum Here is some information about how event based recordi
169. te Multi streaming has some important restrictions that depend heavily on the camera type Please refer to the document Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Supported Video Sources for details on restrictions If your camera supports MJPEG video streaming you can allow using this mode by selecting this checkbox In one special case VisoGuard will try to pull an MJPEG stream even if this checkbox is deselected This is the case when iCAT video analytics is working on MPEG streams e g for motion detection and Multi stream allowed is selected This special additional MJPEG stream in QVGA is used only for iCAT and helps to minimize server CPU load for iCAT processing please refer also to 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 97 If your camera supports MPEG 4 video streaming you can allow using this mode in the Online Monitor and the archive by marking this checkbox Please note that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 7 Introduction the VisoGuard client on page 10 Field label Allow H 264 streaming Allow MxPEG streaming Stream MPEG 4 via Multicast Allow Audio to camera Allow Audio from camera Audio from and to share single button Anonymize distort audio Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Your input If your camera supports H 264 video streaming you can allow using this mode in the Online Monitor and the archive by marking this checkbox Please note that pla
170. te please refer to 9 3 Defining PTZ routes on page 66 To schedule a PTZ route follow these steps 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog Select a PTZ camera Press the Next button to go to the Scheduling dialog In the menu select Modify selected camera or group Click the Add button to add a programming slot to the Time Intervals field Click the Change button now enabled for a popup menu select PTZ route This will show the PTZ scheduling settings see above 7 Setthe time settings according to your needs Oo a w TS 70 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 8 Select the route from the Route Name pop up menu in the example above we selected Route 1 9 Click on Save to store the scheduling settings Note You can add several PTZ route schedules for a single camera This means that you can follow different routes at different times 71 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 10 Administrating VisoGuard servers This chapter describes how to get status information about an VisoGuard server and how to set server parameters Further information about administrating servers you find in the document Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Server Installation and Administration 10 1 Server system information and restarting VisoGuard offers 2 sets of status information of the running servers in a network e The server load display in the main client window e The System information
171. tform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 7 Introduction the VisoGuard client on page 10 If your camera supports MxPEG video streaming you can allow using this mode in the Online Monitor and the archive by marking this checkbox Please not that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 7 Introduction the VisoGuard client on page 10 This option should only be switched on in very special situations When marked then the MPEG 4 stream from the camera is received via multicast when disabled via RTSP over HTTP Multicast is a one to many while RTSP is one to one type connection Mark this checkbox only if you want to have multicast MPEG 4 streaming of the camera In most cases you want to leave this checkbox not marked which means that the MPEG 4 stream is transmitted via RTSP over HTTP When marked VisoGuard will allow Audio to the camera and will offer a button for that in the Online Monitor Of course this feature only works if you have a working microphone connected to the PC where you run your client on and your camera has a loudspeaker function When marked VisoGuard will allow Audio from the camera to your client in the Online Monitor and for recordings Of course this feature only works if you have a working loudspeaker connected to the PC where you run your client on Please note that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2
172. the CTRL key while moving the mouse After you finished defining the shape of the link field a dialog is opened offering the available layouts for this link field Choose a layout by double clicking or by pushing the Select button This defines which layout is to be opened when the link field double clicked in Navigation mode 2 Choose Save from the Project menu to save your changes Now you can repeat the steps above to create your overall layout hierarchy You can switch back to Navigation mode by clicking the navigation mode icon at the right side of the tool bar Defining a default project To define a default project to be loaded when LNT is started follow these steps 1 Inthe Project menu choose Set default project which opens a dialog listing all available projects Choose a project and push Select To not load a default project choose lt No default project gt from the list 87 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Now this project will be loaded automatically at startup Defining a home layout A home layout can be defined which is automatically shown when the project is loaded You can set the home layout by following these steps 1 Inthe layout hierarchy select the layout that you want to set as home layout 2 Inthe Layout menu choose Set as home Now this layout will be opened automatically when the project is loaded 13 5 Customizing the behavior and appearance of controls LNT currently has 2 types of control
173. the Next button to go to the statistics pane Disable the checkboxes of those statistics you want to reset Push the Save button to save the changes Now the statistics counts of the disabled statistics are reset 7 Now enable the statistics again by repeating the above steps accordingly Do not forget to push Save again OOo O 14 4 3 Working with iCAT events Working with iCAT events is the same as working with other events of the VisoGuard event management system EMS as described in 8 Handling events on page 61 Currently iCAT generates event of the following types as shown in the event type hierarchy dialog of the Event search see 8 7 Event list and event details on page 61 Camera specific messages State change events Video analysis iCAT events Simple motion detection ICAT object tracking All events that are generated by iCAT that are not simple motion detection like people counting object stopping and sabotage detection are of type iCAT Object tracking Therefore if you want to filter iCAT events you have to choose the event type iCAT Object tracking You can differentiate events for the various iCAT event triggers by their names You can also create event statistics reports in Excel XLS format see 8 3 Generating an event statistics report on page 64 116 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 15 Special functions This chapter describes some special functions of VisoGuard 15 1 Video annotations Video stre
174. the cost in both system time and money for encoding and decoding is kept low The time aspect means that there is limited delay between image capturing in a camera encoding transfer over the network decoding and finally display at the viewing station In other words MJPEG provides low latency due to its simplicity image compression and complete individual images and for this reason it s also well suited for when image processing is to be performed for example video motion detection or object tracking Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual MJPEG gives a guaranteed image quality regardless of movement or complexity of the image scenes lt still offers the flexibility to select either high image quality low compression or lower image quality high compression with the benefit of lower image file sizes thus lower bit rate and bandwidth usage At the same time the frame rate can be easily controlled providing a means to limit bandwidth usage by reducing the frame rate but still with a guaranteed image quality Since MJPEG does not make use of a video compression technique it generates a relatively large amount of image data that is sent across the network For this reason at a given image compression level defining the image quality of the I frame and JPEG image respectively the network bandwidth is less for MPEG compared to MJPEG except at very low frame rates Another difference is that most MJPEG IP cameras can produce multiple simult
175. timeframe and replay the recorded images 53 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 4 Inthe Upper left corner of the Player view select Archive motion detection from the Control menu Calendar Player el s Ll Archive playback Playbac Archive motion detection 100 00 00 02 Now the motion detection pane is opened on the left side in the Player view 2 NN Detection fields Manage detections fields oF PresPost alarm secs i l e p or 5 From the Detection field pop up menu choose the motion detection field definition you want to use for this motion detection If you do not yet have a detection field defined or want to change an existing definition then you can push the Manage detection fields button to jump to the Detection fields view in Administration Please refer to 7 1 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection on page 56 for details on how to setup detection fields Continuing here we assume you have a correctly set up detection field definition 6 To start the server based motion detection Push the Start button kal You can see the progress of the motion detection at the progress bar You can always stop a running motion detection by pushing the Stop button si 54 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Caution Since the motion detection actually runs on the VisoGuard server and can potentially use up a lot of CPU resources please be careful selecting the detection fields and also the
176. tions You can also modify the behavior for certain events like color and blinking Click OK to create the new camera control icon 13 5 3 Modifying zone control appearance and behavior 1 90 Switch to editing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing button at the right side of the tool bar In the control icon list click on a zone icon with the right mouse button and choose Modify from the pop up menu This opens the Modify Zone dialog Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Modify Zone a Name fone Color Color Opacity 70 Highlight color Color oa Opacity 120 Actions Single click Show zone live in Observer Client Double click Mouse over Mouse over delay Context menu actions Show zone live in Observer Client Stop motion detection Start continuous recording Stop analog video decode Start motion detection Decode video to analog Stop continuous recording Event Action Motion detected Connection to camera restored View selected in Observer Client Color Opacity 100 Connection to camera lost In this dialog you can define the color of the zone and which actions are to be performed on certain mouse operations and events Actions The possible Actions are basically the same as for the camera control see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 88 with one addition e Show zone live in Observer Client exposes the corresponding view of the zone
177. triggers are people or object counters and detectors of stopped or started objects The CPU load caused by event triggers compared to the tracking region is negligible Scheduling The standard VisoGuard scheduling mechanisms are also used for scheduling activating various iCAT setups For example it is possible to have different iCAT settings for weekdays and weekends 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT Camera placement Generally the iCAT algorithms work with in and outdoor cameras as well as for different perspectives The configuration of the algorithms in VisoGuard is pretty simple as you will see below For people and object counting the best results are possible if the camera is mounted overhead downward looking Please note Setting up iCAT definitions for PTZ cameras is problematic since most of the iCAT functions require a fixed camera position Video streams and formats iCAT works with any video camera If the camera can provide an MJPEG stream iCAT uses this format because it is the most efficient for video analytics If the camera provides only MPEG formats MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG then iCAT can also work on these streaming formats However please be aware that video analytics in MPEG streams requires a lot more CPU power than in MJPEG streams since the decoding is much more complex for multi stream operation please see below Also 97 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual video analytics in MPEG
178. ts of the following components that are tightly integrated with VisoGuard 1 An object detection engine that analyzes the video stream and detects and tracks objects Please be aware that only moving objects are detected and tracked 2 An object tracking engine with configurable event triggers decides when a tracked object triggers an event 3 A real time statistics module stores statistical information about various aspects of objects like object sizes and speeds For setting up a camera with iCAT you essentially configure the following things Object tracking region The object tracking region defines the part of the camera view in which iCAT is detecting and tracking objects For each camera you can define one tracking region that is either the full camera view or a part of it in the form of a polygon or rectangle No object will be detected or tracked outside of this tracking region Since the CPU overhead caused by iCAT is directly proportional to the size area of all the active tracking regions of all active cameras of a server optimizing the tracking regions will save CPU power For each tracking region you can also define what object statistics should be measured by iCAT Such Statistics can then be visualized Event triggers Each camera can have several event triggers that define under what conditions an event is generated by the detected objects Event triggers only work inside of the object tracking region Examples of event
179. tton is 2 Select the camera from the camera tree and push Select you can also double click a camera or drag it to the calendar view An overview for the selected camera on the current day is displayed 46 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Calendar Player Analog 1 CET levy ay View Total images E TT NENA ier ac er O G Wem e O a Se O D eae ob oP D Q 2007 February 27 Playback interval 2007 27 2007 j 02 27 Start time 44 End time cn Z cn Playback acceleration E 1x 00 00 59 This one day overview shows green blocks indicating minutes for which recordings have been archived A red corner in a block indicates that an event was triggered and an event recording was started in that minute When you move the mouse pointer over a green block then the first recorded frame of this minute is displayed in the lower right corner of the window You can also switch to a monthly or an annual overview via the View button and its popup menu View Day View Year View Month View Here is an example of a month view for the camera 47 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 48 With the mouse select the time span of the archive that you want to play back To do this press the left mouse button at the start of the time range then move the mouse pointer to the end of the time range and then release the mouse button The color of the selected time range changes
180. u have created a tracking region you can create an arbitrary number of event triggers inside this tracking region Event triggers define under what conditions an VisoGuard event is generated by iCAT Such events can trigger automatic recording and are stored in the normal VisoGuard event database that can be queried and exported Currently iCAT supports the following event triggers e A Smart Tripwire for directional people or object counting This tripwire is directional so if you want to count objects in two directions you would create two tripwires e A polygon or rectangle that creates an event when an object either crosses the field stops inside the field or starts moving inside the field Here are the steps for creating a counting tripwire 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Select a camera and in the menu and make sure that you have a suitable tracking region defined that allows for object counting 3 Select Add new definition 4 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Event trigger which will expose the configuration settings 5 Under the camera preview choose the Tripwire check box for directional people or object counting 6 Now you can draw the tripwire line with the mouse in the preview pane You just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You finish the line by double clicking with the mouse Here is an example of a tripwire
181. u to selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 74 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 110 14 3 7 Defining a privacy mask Privacy masks allow hiding private areas of a camera view from live viewing and recording This is an example of a privacy mask hiding the text on the carpet ENTRY _azdis 4 fps counter 1 0H 00 47 4 Here are the steps for creating a privacy mask Please note For privacy masking an object tracking region is NOT needed Currently privacy masks are not shown in exported streams and in the Layout Navigation tool 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iICAT dialog Choose a camera and in the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Privacy mask which will expose the configuration settings Under the camera preview choose the Rectangle or Polygon check box Now you can draw the privacy field with the mouse in the preview pane For a polygon you just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You close the polygon by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse OF ae ie Ie 107 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual In the Identifier text field enter a name for this privacy mask Push Save to save your definition Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the c
182. uard 12 If your browser is Internet Explorer and client system is Windows XP SP2 service pack 2 then a special paragraph is shown explaining that additional browser settings are necessary Q Your Internet Explorer application is already built with the new Microsoft security solution contained in Service Pack 2 SP2 In order to run WeteviIS Observer J correctly please visit our setup page Follow the link and apply the settings as described on the SP2 page After that restart the browser and continue After you click on Start Thecus VisoGuard you will be advised that the program is being loaded How long loading takes depends on your network On completion of loading you will be notified that VisoGuard is initializing Then user data is loaded Note By clicking on Download Thecus VisoGuard client installer you can also install the VisoGuard client on your machine locally 2 3 Working with the installed VisoGuard client on page 14 Before starting the VisoGuard client you will be asked if you allow to execute the downloaded trusted applet Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual sicherheitswarnung Installieren und Ausf hren von NetAVIS Observer II signiert zu einem unbekannten Datum Uhrzeit und herausgegeben von Aperts Software Ltd Authentizitat des Herausgebers best tigt durch Ven Sign Class 3 Code Signing 2001 CA Hinweis Xperts Software Ltd versichert dass dieser Inhalt sicher ist Die Installation bzw d
183. use wheel zoom in forward scroll and zoom out backward scroll The amount of the zoom will be indicated by 3 red dots after the mouse is released Please note When PTZ control is enabled any mouse actions are taken for PTZ control In order to control the client based view port zooming see 6 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings on page 49 hold down the CTRL key while using the mouse Crosshair When this mode is enabled a crosshair is shown in the view port gape ATA AE Medium movement up Small movement nght Large movement left CERET Teea Large movement down and nght Fredefined positions Large zoom in 69 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual Controlling PTZ cameras with a joystick The locally installed version of VisoGuard is able to handle USB joysticks as input device from Java VM 1 4 and newer for information on how to install the application version locally please refer to 2 3 Working with the installed VisoGuard client on page 14 The joystick can be used for panning tilting the camera while its buttons for zoom in and zoom out operations which button is used for which operation is assigned during calibration The joystick must be calibrated before use found in the System Information menu beside the language change menu To assign the joystick input focus to a camera click into the frame while holding the SHIFT and CTRL buttons This is visible via an
184. ut also in archived recordings Please refer to 6 4 Motion detection in archive recordings on page 53 7 3 In camera motion detection Several IP cameras and video servers support in camera motion detection and upload push of event triggered images via FTP or HTTP to a video management system like VisoGuard VisoGuard implements a general mechanism to handle this feature This section describes how VisoGuard supports in camera motion detection and also how to configure it in VisoGuard Please note Since the camera carries out the detection the actual configuration and programming must be done directly in the camera via the setup interface e g parameters like detection settings image quality soeed etc This can usually be done by connecting with a web browser to the camera by entering its IP address Please refer to the most actual document Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 Supported Video Sources and the camera s user manual for further details 7 3 1 How VisoGuard supports in camera motion detection In the camera you define the various settings for the motion detection algorithm and for the transmission of event images to the VisoGuard server which is done via FTP or HTTP push upload by the camera Most cameras also support the transmission of pre and post event images The configuration of for these pre and post event images must also be done in the camera VisoGuard is capable of doing these things in connection with in camera motio
185. ves when the server has a new version 2 2 Starting the VisoGuard client in a standard web browser This section describes how to start the client in a standard web browser If you want to install the client on your machine and run it independently of a web browser please refer to 2 3 Working with the installed VisoGuard client on page 14 1 Launch an Internet browser and enter the address of your server http IP address of your server 8080 Z about blank Microsoft Internet Explorer a Datei Bearbeiten Ansicht Favoriten Extras Adresse http 80 81 1286 30 Now a page that checks the availability of the Java on your computer appears This page should disappear in a few seconds If this page stays it means that you do not have the Java plug in installed on your browser You have to first install Java by visiting www java com download to install the latest Java 2 package Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual and then start the browser anew Now the screen should disappear and you can continue as shown below Next a startup screen is displayed that lets you choose the language that you want VisoGuard to use Q netavis NETAVIS Observer 3 0 0 Magyar Star Deutsch E i Czech 2002 2008 NETAVIS Software GmbH All 5 PSk Hrvatski See Pyeckml Polski benrapcKn Sloven ina Fran ais Suomi 2 Click on your language of choice and push Start This takes you to the start page of VisoG
186. y the camera could decrease the accuracy of these detectors or could even prevent detection at all This is because such overlay fields are always stable have a high contrast and sharpness and can therefore balance real picture changes so that the overall change is too small to be detected The solution is to either disable these overlay fields in the camera or to mask them out in iCAT see 14 3 7 Defining a privacy mask on page 107 Focus lost and focus gained events 105 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual A dynamic scene with moving objects of various sizes always changes the average sharpness a little bit and the detector tries to filter out these small variations This is not always possible so one can sometimes experience false focus lost or a focus gained events Covering the camera should cause a camera covered event but the effects of the covering could be very similar from the algorithm s point of view to a moved camera or to a lost focus So the algorithm has to decide what happened and the result is not always the proper event category one may get camera moved and more usually focus lost instead of camera covered However a sabotage event should occur at unusual situations it is just possible that the detailed category will not match the actual reason iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 You can also choose a specific Ilcon and Sound for the even
187. you can enter a description 7 Click on Next to move to the Route details dialog gt 66 10 11 12 Thecus VisoGuard 4 0 User Manual 2 Route details AXIS 2130 Route1 Down a Stay on target time 5 0 Previous Stop test Cancel Save Next Click the New button to create a new entry in the Position list of the route and select a position from the list of predefined positions via the Position popup menu In the Time at position field enter the duration in seconds that the camera is to spend at the position Note that this time includes the positioning time of the camera Repeat Steps 8 and 9 for each entry in the position list You can change the sequence within the position list by selecting a position and then clicking the Up or Down button You can remove an entry from the Positions list by selecting it and then pressing the Delete button Click the Save button to save your route or Cancel to discard changes You can select the saved route in the Online Monitor via the PTZ menu of the view port control menu of the PTZ camera Proceed similarly to modify a route 9 4 Controlling PTZ cameras 9 4 1 Controlling PTZ cameras in the Online monitor Control PTZ cameras as follows 1 2 Select the Online monitor Switch to a view that contains a PTZ camera how to create views and assign cameras is covered in section 5 Using the Online monitor on page 34 In the view port of the PTZ camera pus

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