Getting Started
Installing 3VR OpCenter
3VR OpCenter™ client software allows you to access a 3VR Smart Recorder from any PC on your network that meets the minimum system requirements below.
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Operating System | Windows XP Professional SP2 or later, Windows Vista |
Processor | Intel and AMD CPUs, 1.1 GHz or higher |
Display | Any display capable of 1024x768 resolution or greater |
Memory | 512 MB RAM or greater |
Storage | 500MB |
Network Requirements | |
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Bandwidth | Broadband connection (384 Kb/s or greater) to 3VR server recommended. Greater bandwidth will result in a better user experience when viewing stored or live video. |
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Licensing 3VR OpCenter
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4. Enter the license key in the text field. If the license 5. Click OK to enter the license key and proceed to the |
A license key is required the first time each application is run on a new client PC. License keys change daily, so a key received from technical support will not be valid for subsequent installations performed on a different day.
Contact 3VR Technical Support by email (support@3vr.com) or by phone at (415) 513-4572 and provide your SmartRecorder’s serial number* to obtain a license key for OpCenter that will be valid for the day of the installation.
* Serial numbers are located on the outside of the unit and start with “BM”
OpCenter Basics
Connecting to a 3VR SmartRecorder over a Network
3VR OpCenter™ client software allows you to access a 3VR system from any desktop computer on your network that meets the minimum system requirements.
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Managing the OpCenter Server List
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Resizing and Closing OpCenter
3VR OpCenter™ can be resized in the same way as any other Windows application using the controls in the upper right corner.
Minimizes OpCenter
Maximizes OpCenter
Restores OpCenter
- Customize the size of your OpCenter window by clicking any edge of the window and dragging until the window has reached the desired size.
- Click and drag in a corner of the window and drag to resize the window vertically and horizontally at the same time.
- Resizing OpCenter will allow more event cards to be displayed at a time. However, all functionality will remain the same at different window sizes.
Closes OpCenter and signs the user out of the application.
Monitoring Recent Events
Viewing Events
Refer Working with Alerts and Working with Notes chapter for more details. |
Monitor Panel Overview
The OpCenter Monitor panel allows you to view events as they happen. You can specify which cameras to view, and what types of events are displayed.
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Event Types and Filters
The 3VR System generates several types of events. Event types such as license plate events appear in the monitor panel if they have been installed as a plug-in on the system.
Face events will not appear unless they have been configured on the camera of interest.
A. Motion events are created when the system detects movement in the camera’s field of view. B. Face events indicate that the system detected a person during a motion event. Face events display the best views of a person’s face. | |
The Alerts and Notes event filters can be used in combination with event types to restrict the set of events to those that have triggered alerts or have notes attached: C. Alert events are motion or face events that meet user-defined criteria for an alert, such as a targeted face or motion occurring during a specified time range. |
Motion Events
In the Monitor panel, a motion event card is displayed when the system detects movement in the camera’s field of view.
Motion event cards feature:
a. Images: each motion event card displays up to three still frames from the event.
- Early frame: a frame near the beginning of the motion event
- Middle frame: a frame from the middle of the motion event
- Late frame: a frame near the end of the motion event
b. Camera number and name: the number and name of the camera that captured the motion event.
c. Event start time: the time that motion was first detected by the camera.
d. Event duration: the length of time continuous motion was detected.
Quickly search for related motion events by right-clicking on a motion event card and selecting Search for Channel or Search for Time.
Face Events
In the Monitor panel, a face event card is displayed when the system finds a face in the video stream.
All face event cards feature the following elements:
- Face image: the best image of the individual’s face.
- Camera: the number and name of the camera which captured the event.
- Event time: the time the face was detected.
- Face event type: there are three types of face event cards: Indexed, Matched, and New.
- Indexed face events can be used to search for similar faces or create a person profile
- Matched face events have been manually matched to a known person already in the system
- New face events have been used to create a new person profile
Customizing the Monitor Panel View
Selecting Channels
Channels are selected at the top of the Monitor panel. | |
To view a camera name, point the mouse at the camera number but do not click. The camera name will be displayed as a tool-tip. | |
Click a single channel number to show only events captured by that camera. |
Adjusting the Number of Events per Page
You can change the size and number of the event cards displayed per page in the Monitor panel. Making event cards smaller allows you to view more events at a time.
Event cards function the same way at any size: When you click on an event card, video will play, and any information about the event will be displayed in the Event Detail Viewer. |
Viewing Video in the Monitor Panel
Playing Video from Events
When you select an event card, the video associated with the event will automatically play in the video player. As video plays, the timeline below the video indicates where you are in the video.
The time of the event and the length of the video are displayed to the right of the playback controls. The time is displayed in hours, minutes, seconds, and hundredths of a second. Video playback controls operate like a typical home video player, with play, pause, rewind, fast forward, and slow motion.
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Click the play button to play the video at normal speed. | |
Click the pause button, then click the forward button to step forward one frame at a time. Click the play button to resume playing video at normal speed. | |
Click the pause button to pause the video. | |
Click the pause button, then click the back button to step backward one frame at a time. Click the play button to resume playing video at normal speed. | |
Click the slow motion button to play the video in slow motion. Clicking this button up to three times will allow you to view the video at one-half, one-quarter, one-eighth, and one-sixteenth of normal speed. Click the play button to resume playing video at normal speed. | |
The save frame button appears when motion event video is paused. Click this button to create an image from a video frame. | |
Click the fast forward button to play the video at 2x speed. Click again to play at 3x speed, click again to play at 4x speed. Click the play button to resume playing video at normal speed. | |
Click the rewind button to rewind the video at 1x speed; continue clicking to rewind at 2x, 3x, and 4x speeds. Click the play button to resume playing video at normal speed. |
To view event details without playing the event video, hold down the Alt key when you click on an event or deselect the check box displayed below the right end of the video timeline.
Scanning Events from a Single Channel
The Scan Forward button allows you to watch video from sequential events of the same type on the same camera. To stop scanning, press the Scan Forward button again. Scanning also stops when you manually select a different motion event, or change cameras, time period, or event types.
When scanning, the next event card from the same camera will be selected automatically at the end of each event. The selected event card is highlighted in orange. When scanning, events from only one camera and event type will be played. For example, if a motion event on channel 14 is selected when scanning begins, only motion events from channel 14 will be selected. Video from any other selected cameras or event types will not play.
Viewing Video
Viewing Video in the Monitor Panel
Watching Live Video in the Monitor Panel
The Live Video tab allows you to monitor one live video feed in the Monitor or Search panel. This lets you keep an eye on one important channel while viewing event cards from a number of channels.There are two ways to turn on live video in the Monitor panel:
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Playing Full-Length Video Associated with a Face Event
Face events are only generated on channels configured for face finding. To enable face finding, consult your 3VR sales representative.
When a face is detected during a motion event, a face event will be generated from the segment of the associated motion event video when a face was found.
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Playing Synchronized Video from an Event
To view video from other channels that occurred around the same time as an event of interest.
Synchronized video is not available for very recent events (i.e., events that have occurred within the past 30 seconds). |
Viewing Live Video
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When you are viewing stored video, the time is highlighted in yellow.
Selecting Channels in the Video Panel
Manually selecting Channels
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Viewing Video Feeds from a Channel group
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When channel groups have been selected, the drop-down channel menu on each video stream is disabled. You may not manually select a different number of channels to view until you recheck "Select channels manually" radio button.
Loading Stored Video
You can use the Video panel to view stored video from one or more channels.
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Using the Video Timeline
The timeline at the top of the Video panel displays a 15 minute time range. When you are watching live video, the current time is highlighted in green, and moves forward along the timeline as time passes.
When you are viewing stored video, the video time is highlighted in yellow, and moves forward along the timeline as the stored video plays.
To move forward and backward on the video timeline:
Stored video will not be available for very recent events (i.e., events which have occurred within the past 30 seconds). |
Using Video Playback Controls
The video playback controls are similar to those of a home video player. When you are viewing more than one video stream at once, the controls affect all streams at the same time. These controls are only available when you are viewing stored video, and are disabled when you are viewing live video.
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Click rewind 1–4 times to adjust the rewind speed (1x, 2x, 3x, and 4x). | |
Click fast forward 1–3 times to adjust the forward speed (2x, 3x, and 4x). | |
When video is paused, click the Frame backward button to move all channels backward one frame at a time. | |
When video is paused, click the Frame forward button to move all channels forward one frame at a time. | |
Click the slow motion button 1–3 times to decrease the video playback speed by one-half, one-third, or one-fourth. | |
When the video is paused, pressing play or slow motion starts it again. | |
When you click the pause button, the fast forward and rewind buttons become Frame buttons, and clicking these buttons allows you to move forward or backward one individual frame at a time. |
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Searching for Events
Setting up a Search
Search Overview
Use the Search panel to find events that were recorded hours, days, weeks, or months ago.
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Specify Search Date, Day and Time
The first step when selecting search criteria is to select the period of time you want your search to cover, by selecting the Date Range.
If a Date Range greater than 1 week has been specified, you can restrict the search to specific days of the week.
If the Date Range specified is at least one day, you can:
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Select Channels
At least one channel must be selected in order to perform a search.
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Specify Event Types
The search panel allows you to specify search criteria for all event types found on your system. Different options may be available for different event types. A brief overview of the most common event types can be found below.
Motion check box
- All radio button returns all motion events during the search time frame
- Specify radio button is used to search for motion in a specific region of the camera view, or motion in a specific direction (if enabled) when a single channel is selected
Faces check box
- All radio button returns all face events during the search time frame
- Specify radio button is used to search for face events similar to specific person profiles or group members. Similarity levels can be adjusted.
The Alerts filter and Notes filter can also be used to find events in the Search panel.
Alerts Only check box
- All radio button returns all events which triggered an alert during the search time frame
- Specify radio button is used to search for events that triggered a specific alert. To select an alert type, check the box beside the alert name. If an alerts has been created for a specific channels, one or more channels defined in the alert must be selected for the search to yield any results.
Notes check box
- All radio button returns all events which triggered an alert during the search time frame
- Specify radio button is used to search for events with specific note labels. To search for a note label, check the box beside the note label.
If additional event types are selected, you can restrict the set of events that are returned to only those that have triggered notes by selecting Events with alerts check box or Events with notes check box.
Once you have chosen an event type click Search to begin the search.
Setting Up a Search for Associated Events
When you search for any specific type of event, you can choose to search for related events of a different type that occurred around the same time. Conduct a cross-analytic search by setting up primary and secondary searches that will run simultaneously:
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Viewing the Results of an Events Search
The results of a search will be displayed in the Search results screen.
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Saving and Using Frequent Searches
If you frequently perform the same searches, you can save search criteria to make future investigations faster. To save a search:
- Click the Search tab.
- Specify the search criteria as described on the previous pages as shown below.
- Type a name for your search into the Save Search As box and click Save.
To search for events using a saved search:
- Click the Search tab and the Saved Searches sub-tab.
- Click to select the saved search in the list.
- Click the Search button.
Modifying a Saved Search
To modify a saved search:
- Click the Search tab and the Saved Searches sub-tab.
- Click to select the saved search you wish to modify from the list of searches.
- To change the search criteria, click the Edit button. You will be returned to the New Search panel where you can modify the search parameters as desired. Click Save to store your changes. To delete the saved search, click Delete.
Searching for Motion
Setting up a Motion Direction Analysis Search
Motion Direction Analysis can be enabled on a per-camera basis by users with administrative privileges. For more information on enabling motion analysis, consult your 3VR sales representative and/or 3VR professional services.
When Motion Direction Analysis is turned on for a camera, the system will track the direction of motion in recorded events. You can use this data when searching for specific types of motion events. For example, by specifying the direction of the motion you can find only events where someone was entering a room rather than simply passing by the door.
To set up a search based on motion found in a specific region of the camera view:
- Click the Search tab to open the Search panel.
- Specify the date and time ranges for your search.
- Select a single camera by clicking the channel number. Only one camera can be selected when searching for motion in a region or direction. The selected channel must have Motion Direction Analysis enabled.
Searching for Motion in a Specific Region
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Searching for Motion in a Specific Direction
- Under Events, select Motion and click Specify. If more than one camera is selected, then the Specify radio button option gets disabled.
- Under Direction, click Specify direction radio button.
- By default, the right arrow is selected. Click to select or deselect slices of the direction selector. Selected sections are highlighted in orange.
- Arrows corresponding to the selected directions appear in the camera view.
Click Search.
If you have selected one or more regions in the camera view before selecting directions in the direction selector, the direction arrows will appear inside the selected region, as in this example. Click a region in the camera view to select it, then click sections of the direction selector to select specific motion directions for that region.
Searching for People
Searching for a Person of Interest
Adjusting Similarity to Fine-tune Face Event Searches
You can modify searches for face events by specifying the level of Similarity. Selecting a higher similarity level will return results that are more likely to match the face you are searching for, but there will be fewer results. Selecting a lower similarity level will return more results, but more of those faces may not match the one you are searching for.
To specify the Similarity level for a search, select one of the following methods:
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Searching for Faces Similar to a Face Event
From the Monitor panel or when viewing search results, you can search for faces similar to a selected face event card:
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Searching for Faces Similar to a Known Person
You can search for face events with a specified level of similarity to a known person from the People panel:
- In the Search panel, choose the Faces event type check box.
- Click Specify radio button.
- Select People and Characteristics check box, then select Person radio button.
- Scroll through the list of people to find the face, name, or person ID of the person you are searching for. Click to select that person.
- Expand the number of face events found in your search by lowering the Similarity. See the first page of this chapter for more information.
- Click Search.
- You can also search for all people except a selected person. Set the similarity level to Matches Only by moving the slider bar all the way to the top and choose Not check box. The Not check box option is disabled if you select a similarity level other than Matches Only.
- If you are searching for a person who appeared in a recent face event, it may be easier to search for that person from the Monitor panel. See Recent Events for more information.
Searching for User-Defined Characteristics
You can search for face events based on group membership, ID number, gender, hair color, and other identifying characteristics.
Refer Using People Panel for more details.
4. To increase the specificity of the search, lowering the level of Similarity. See Face Events for more information about adjusting for similarity. 5. Click Search. The Employee ID, Gender and/or Hair color options will only produce useful results if these properties have been manually entered regularly and consistently. See People Panel for more information on editing person details. |
Searching for Face Events by Match Type
To search for the different types of face events that may be found on your system through check boxes ( Indexed, Matched and New):
- In the Search panel, choose the Faces event type check box.
- Click Specify radio button.
- Select People and Characteristics check box and then Characteristics radio button.
- Select Match Type check box.
- To find face events that have not been matched to or used to generate a person in the People panel, select Indexed check box.
- To find face events that a user has manually matched to a person, select Matched by user check box.
- Click the Search button.
Using the People Panel
Overview
When a face event in the Monitor or Search panel features someone you want to keep track of, you can enter details about the person on the face event card and click Save. This generates a person profile for this individual, a permanent record displayed in the People panel.
In the People panel, you can create groups, organize people into groups, add notes and edit the details associated with each person.
Filtering People Based on Group Status
Groups provide a way of categorizing people who have been entered into your system.
In the People panel, a list of all available groups will be displayed in the top left. Click on any group name in this list to display the members of the group.
a. To view all people in your system, select All People. b. To view people in a specific group, select the group name from the list. c. To view only people who have manually been assigned to any group, select Categorized People. d. To view people who have not been manually assigned to a group, select Uncategorized People. |
Sorting People Chronologically
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Filtering People Based on User-Defined Characteristics
Filters are a quick way to find people profiles meeting certain criteria. After selecting a group, you can use one or more of the following filters:
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Managing Groups
Creating Groups
This feature requires administrative access.
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Editing and Deleting Groups
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You will not be allowed to delete a group that currently has members. You must first move each group member to a different group or mark them as uncategorized by individually editing each profile. You may delete the group once all members have been moved.
Working with Person Profiles
Viewing a Person
Click a profile card in the People panel to view a person:
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From the Profile Detail Viewer, clicking Search for Person takes you to the Search panel where this profile will be pre-selected along with other criteria for a facial similarity search, providing an easy way to search for this person’s appearances in the system over time.
Editing Person Details
- Select a profile card.
- In the Person tab of the Profile Detail Viewer, edit relevant information:
- Group: select the group that the profile belongs to.
- First Name and Last Name
- Employee ID
- Gender and Hair Color
- Click Save to permanently store the changes.
Click Cancel to discard changes.
Merging Two Profiles for the Same Person
When profiles are matched together, the result will be a single profile containing profile images from all selected cards.
Only the profile information from the card you Match all to will be kept. All profile information from the other selected profile will be deleted, and profile images from both cards will now be
associated with the new profile. To merge two profiles from the Person tab of a profile card:
- Select a profile card.
- From the Person tab in the Event Detail Viewer, select Match radio button.
- The number of people displayed in the list can be restricted by using filters.
- Select a radio button beside Show People to select which list of people to display, Named radio button or All radio button.
- To filter profiles based on last name or Person ID, select Name/ID from the drop-down menu. Type part or all of the last name or ID number for the profile you are looking for and press the Enter key.
- To filter profiles by group, select Group from the drop-down menu and select the group name from the second drop-down menu.
- Click the name or image of the profile you wish to merge.
- Click the Match button to add the images from the profile card you are viewing to the profile selected from the list.
Profiles may also be merged when two or more profile cards are selected in the People panel. Right-click on the master profile card to display a menu listing the name, group name, and/or person ID numbers for each selected card. Select Match all to: [master person ID number] to permanently merge the selected profiles.
Adding Notes to a Person
Once added to a person profile, notes cannot be deleted.
When you select a profile card with notes attached, notes added to that profile can be displayed by selecting the Notes tab in the Profile Detail Viewer. To write a note in the People panel:
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Viewing Person Profile Images
The Profiles tab displays groups of images generated from face events which have been manually matched to a person. Matching high-quality face event cards to person profiles help the system improve its ability to recognize that person over time.
- Select a profile card and click the Profiles tab in the Profile Detail Viewer.
- All event profiles for that person profile will be displayed in the Profiles tab. Each event profile contains one or more images generated from a face event.
- To view the images contained in the event profile, select the card for the event profiles and click View Images. The images from that event will be displayed in a new window.
- Click Close to return to the People panel.
Event profiles will only be displayed if Use event profile for searching and alerts was set to Yes. If a profile was created from a face event and Use event profile for searching and alerts was set to No, there may not be viewable event profiles associated with that person, and the View Images button will be disabled.
Changing the Person Profile Reference Image
In the profile tab, the profile marked Display is used as the “reference image” for that profile. This image is used to represent the person whenever they have been identified throughout the system. It is important to select an easily recognizable, high-quality face image as the reference image.
To change the reference image:
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Profiles will only be displayed if Use event profile for searching and alerts was set to Yes.
If a profile was created from a face event and Use event profile for searching and alerts was set to No, there may not be any viewable event profiles associated with that person profile, and the View Images button will be disabled.
You will be unable to change the reference image until you add more profiles by matching face events to the profile.
Changing the Profile Display Image
A profile may contain one or more images generated from a single face event. When you select a profile in the Viewing Profiles panel and click View Images, the images from the selected profile will be displayed in a new window.
To change the image used as the display image for the profile:
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Changing the display image used for the display profile will change the reference image for the selected profile throughout the system.
Unmatching Images from a Person
Sometimes an event has been matched to a person profile incorrectly, or an individual profile image may be of poor quality (poor lighting, bad angle, etc). In those cases, it is recommended that the profile or profile image be unmatched from the person profile.
To unmatch an event profile or profile image:
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Selecting Channels
Overview
Many of the operations in OpCenter require that you select one or more channels. The channel selector functions the same regardless of where it is located:
Monitor Tab
To display a channel’s name, move the mouse over the channel number without clicking. The channel name and number will be displayed as a tool tip. To view all channel names and numbers at one time, click the drop-down arrow to the right of the channel selector.
Search Tab
Alerts Tab
Selecting Individual Channels
OpCenter has two channel selection modes for selecting channels individually, toggle and standard mode:
Toggle Mode
Toggle mode is the default channel selection mode in OpCenter. Toggle mode allows you to easily select or deselect channels by clicking on individual channel numbers.
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Standard Mode
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See the following page for information about selecting and deselecting multiple channels in both toggle and standard mode.
Selecting Multiple Channels and Channel Groups
In both toggle and standard mode, you may select or deselect all channels at once by clicking the All or None buttons to the left of the channel selector. In addition, the current channel selection may be modified by right-clicking anywhere in the channel selector and choosing a new channel arrangement option from the drop-down menu:
To view all of the channels and channel groups on your system, click the drop-down next to the channel selector to display the channel selection drop-down menu.
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See the following two pages for information about configuring channel groups on your 3VR Smart Recorder.
Creating Channel Groups
The below feature requires administrative access.
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Modifying and Deleting Channel Groups
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Working with Face Events
About Face Events
Viewing Face Events
When Faces check box is selected from the event type drop-down menu, face event cards appear in the Monitor panel. Face events also appear in the Search panel results when the search includes Faces check box.
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Features of Face Event Cards
In the Monitor panel, face event cards are generated when the system finds a face in the video stream. Face event cards at the smallest size display the Person ID for matched face events and a single image from the face event. Face event cards at the two intermediate sizes additionally display the time the event occurred. Full-size event cards contain the following elements:
Matched and New face events may also contain these elements:
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- Indexed face events are generated when a face detected in the video feed is not matched to any faces previously identified in the system.
- After person details are added to an Indexed face event to create a new person, the face event card used to create a new person will be labeled New.
- When you see a face event featuring a person who has been identified in your system, you can match the event to the person. The event card will then be labeled Matched.
Working with People
Viewing and Editing Person Details from a Matched Face Event
Editing Person Details affects the person profile everywhere on your Smart Recorder.
When person details are edited in the Monitor, Search or Cases panels, those details will be changed throughout the entire system for the identified person profile, not only for the selected face event.
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- Once a person profile has been created from or matched to a face event, that person’s identifying information can also be edited in the People panel.
- If a face event has been matched to the wrong person, use Match or Unmatch before modifying person details. See unmatching a face event from a person for more information.
Creating a New Person from a Face Event
When you see a face event featuring a new person of interest, enter details about that person on the face event card to create a permanent record of the person in the system from the face images generated by the face event.
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Once a person profile has been created from a face event, that person’s identifying information can also be edited in the People panel. See people panel section for more information.
Hide Matched or New Face Events from Searches and Alerts
When searching or generating an alert for a person, the images that have been matched to that person are used for comparison. Thus, it is important to only add profiles from high-quality face events.
You can choose to hide the set of images from a face event from the Person tab in the Event Detail Viewer:
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Matching Face Events to People
Matching or Unmatching a Face Event to an Existing Person
If you see an Indexed face event in the Monitor or Search panels featuring a person that already exists in your system, you can manually match the face event to the person.
On the other hand, if you see a face event that has been matched to a person incorrectly, you can unmatch the face event from that person.
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Working with Alerts
Viewing Alerts
Monitoring Alerts
When an alert is triggered, the event that triggered the alert will be labeled with colored bar across the top of the event card.
To view information about the alert associated with an event card:
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Viewing and Enabling Alerts
To view information about an alert
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Viewing Alert Action Configuration
Alert actions can be created to email key security personnel, change recording settings, or modify the maximum amount of bandwidth the Smart Recorder can use when an alert is triggered. Only users with administrative privileges can configure alert actions. To view an existing alert action:
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Creating Alerts
Set Alert Name and Color
Creating alerts requires administrative access.
To create a new alert, click the New button from the Alerts sub-tab.
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Select Days and Times
You can set an alert to be triggered only on certain days of the week, or at certain times of day.
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Select Channels
By default, no cameras are selected. You can customize your camera choices the same way you would in the Monitor panel:
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Select Alert Actions
You can select the actions that will take place when an alert is triggered. The list of available actions appears in the Actions list box.
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Refer creating alert response actions topic for more information .
Enter Alert Response Procedure
Enter text into the Alert Response Procedure box in the lower left of the Creating Alert screen to include instructions for responding to an alert.
This text will appear with other information about the alert when you click on an alert event card in the Monitor panel.
Specify Alert Criteria
Faces Check Box
Alerts for face events can only be triggered when Facial Surveillance has been enabled on the channels selected in the alert configuration.
To enable Facial Surveillance analytics on your system, consult your 3VR sales representative for more information.
Face similarity alerts compare incoming face events to the selected person. When the system detects a face that is similar to the selected person’s face, the alert will be triggered. Group similarity alerts compare incoming face events to the members of a selected group. When the system detects a face that is similar to a group member, the alert will be triggered.
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By default, Similarity is set to 80. Using a higher similarity level will return fewer results that are more likely to match the person you have selected. Using a lower similarity level will return more results, but more of those faces may not match the one you have selected.
If the similarity level is set to Matches Only, this alert will not trigger. You can only select Not (to alert for any faces that are not similar to the selected person) when Matches Only is selected. This feature is not available on your system.
Motion Check Box
To set an alert for all motion on one or more cameras for a specified time period:
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To generate an alert when motion occurs in a specific region of the camera field of view:
Alerts for motion in a specific region can only be triggered when Motion Direction Analysis has been enabled on the channels selected in the alert configuration. To enable Motion Direction analytics on your system, consult your 3VR sales representative for more information.
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To generate an alert when motion occurs in a specific direction within the camera field of view:
Alerts for motion in a specific direction can only be triggered when Motion Direction Analysis has been enabled on the channels selected in the alert configuration. To enable Motion Direction analytics on your system, consult your 3VR sales representative for more information.
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If you have selected one or more regions in the camera view before selecting directions in the direction selector, the direction arrows will appear inside the selected region.
Creating Alert Response Actions
Sending Email When an Alert is Triggered
This feature requires administrative access.
An alert response action can send an email to selected recipients when an alert is triggered.
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Modify Recording or Bandwidth When an Alert is Triggered
If multiple camera models are connected to a 3VR system, separate alert actions must be created for groups of channels using each camera model. The same Maximum Bandwidth values must be used in alert response actions that will be enabled at the same time.
An alert response action can change recording and bandwidth settings when an alert is triggered.
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Working With Notes
Viewing and Existing Note
Notes can be viewed and created from the Monitor panel, Search panel results screen, and Cases panel. Notes can also be created for known people in the People panel. The notes tab is only displayed when an event, person or case is selected.
To read the notes attached to an event:
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Adding a New Note
Once notes are added to an event, they can not be deleted.
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Relabeling a Note
Note labels can be used to to distinguish between different types of notes. The 3VR system comes with four predefined note labels: Note, Flag, Review, and Cleared. When adding a note to an event, the label Note will appear by default on the event card unless a different label is manually selected.
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Managing Note Labels
Creating a Note Label
To create a new note label:
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Editing or Deleting a Note Label
To edit or delete an existing label:
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Labels that are in use cannot be deleted. Before deleting a label, you must manually reassign each note currently using the label to a different label. Perform a search for events With Notes in the Search panel to identify notes that must be relabeled.
Working with Images
Viewing Images
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Using Image Enhancement Controls
Sometimes, captured images may appear fuzzy or pixelated. You may be able to improve the appearance of an image with these controls.
The image enhancement controls are to the lower left of the image in the Image Details window. To apply an image enhancement control, click the associated icon. The icons may be clicked multiple times to increase the amount of enhancement.
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Using the OpCenter Image Clipboard
The OpCenter™ Image Clipboard allows you to select and view a collection of several images from different events and print, copy, or email some or all of them at one time.
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Saving Frames from Motion Events
To save a frame from a motion event to the image tab:
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Sharing Images
Printing Images
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Emailing Images
To send event images to an email address:
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To send email, the 3VR system must be connected to a network with an email server. A user with administrative privileges can configure the email server.
If you are experiencing difficulty sending video, your email server may be blocking the SmartRecorder from sending video files, or the files may be too large to be sent via email. Contact your IT department for assistance.
Copying Images to the Windows Clipboard
When logged into OpCenter on a PC, you can copy images from events to the Windows clipboard. Copied frames include the selected image and event details. This information is then available to be pasted into other applications (e.g., MS Word, Outlook, MS Paint, or Adobe Photoshop).
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Exporting Surveillance
Exporting Events
Exporting and Sharing Events
If you have identified several events you wish to share with other investigators or law enforcement, exporting events allows users without access to a 3VR Smart Recorder to view a useful storyboard summary of events, images, and associated video using Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Investigators can view, print, copy and save event images, video and information directly from their web browser.
Exporting Events for Viewing in a Web Browser
To export selected events, including associated video, images and event information in a format that can be viewed in a web browser or imported into another 3VR system:
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Exporting All Search Results
To export all events from search results:
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If any events are selected, click the space between event cards to deselect all events.
Including Event Details in Images
When exporting events to share with others, you can choose to include details about an event in each image that is exported along with the event. To include details about the event in each image, select
- Include event details in images check box
The following information will be displayed directly below the image from the event:
- System name
- Camera name
- Camera number
- Date/time image was generated
Any information associated with the event will be displayed to the right of the image. The details included will vary between event types.
Exporting People
Exporting Select People
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Exporting Groups
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Exporting Cases
Exporting a Selected Case
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Exporting Video
Exporting Continuous Video from the Video Panel
If continuous recording is not enabled on a channel, only video associated with events will be available for export from that channel.
To export all stored video over a specified time range from the Video panel:
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Exported video files are large. For channels using the default resolution, frame rate and quality settings*, each channel included in the export, each minute of video will be about 1 MB.
For example, if you are exporting 16 channels of video for 15 minutes, the folder containing exported video will be around 250 MB in size if video is recorded at the default settings. If the frame rate is increased to 10 fps, or if the video resolution is increased to 2-CIF, the folder containing the exported video will be 500 MB.
To preserve system resources, it is recommended that you only export video of interest when exporting video from the video panel.
* Default analog camera settings: Resolution = CIF, Frame Rate = 5 fps, Quality = Medium
Exporting Continuous Video from Selected Events
If continuous recording is not enabled on a channel, only video associated with events will be available for export from that channel.
You can export all stored video over a time range covered by events you have selected from the Monitor, Search, or Cases panels. The following export criteria will be pre-filled:
- The Start and End time for the video export will be pre-filled with the start time of the first event and the end-time of the last event to end
- The channels which generated the selected events will be pre-selected
To export stored video over the time range defined by selected events:
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Working with Exported Surveillance
Viewing Exported Surveillance
Viewing Exports in a Web Browser
People, Cases and Events exported to XML can be viewed in a web browser.
To view exported people using Internet Explorer:
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To view exported people using Mozilla Firefox:
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For additional information, see the readme.html file included in the exported folder.
Viewing Exported Video in EvidenceViewer
3VR EvidenceViewer is a powerful tool that allows you to simultaneously view one or more channels of video exported from the 3VR OpCenter Video panel without requiring the purchase additional software. 3VR EvidenceViewer is ideal for sharing exported video with law enforcement or other investigators.
With 3VR EvidenceViewer
The user can,
- Simultaneously view up to 36 channels of exported video
- Select which channels to display in the current view
- Scan video using a video timeline
- Automatically verify the integrity of the video being viewed, displaying a warning if the exported video or associated information has been tampered with or modified in any way.
EvidenceViewer is fully supported in Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Obtaining 3VR EvidenceViewer
3VR EvidenceViewer is included with 3VR OpCenter. If you are connecting to a Smart Recorder over a network using OpCenter, you can opt during a video export to include the application in the folder containing exported video. However, if you will be emailing the exported video or transferring the export folder via a slow network connection, it is recommended that you do not include the 20MB
EvidenceViewer application in the exported folder; instead, advise the recipient to download EvidenceViewer from www.3VR.com/downloads/ EvidenceViewer. Instructions for obtaining 3VR EvidenceViewer are included with every video export.
Using 3VR EvidenceViewer
Instructions for using EvidenceViewer are included in the EvidenceViewer Readme file (EvidenceViewer_ReadMe.html)
Verifying Integrity of Exported Surveillance
Validating Exported XML
In the Search panel, use the Validation tab to verify that the contents of a 3VR Event Export folder have not been tampered with, and that events can successfully be imported into a 3VR system.
If you are a law enforcement agent or other legal party, and you want specific instructions to verify the watermark on events exported from a 3VR server, contact 3VR Technical Support for more information. |
Importing Surveillance Exported from a Smart Recorder
Importing Events
To import events exported from another 3VR system:
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To import events from XML, your 3VR system must have at least one channel configured for XML import. To learn more about configuring a channel for XML import, consult your 3VR sales representative or 3VR Technical Support.
Importing People Profiles
To import people exported from another 3VR system:
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People imported into a system from XML are placed into the same group they belonged to in the system from which they were exported. If the group with the same name does not exist in the
new system, it will be created.
Additionally, all identifying information for each person (name, id number and other associated information) will be imported into the new system.
Importing from 3VR CrimeDex
Importing People from CrimeDex
To create people profiles from suspects exported from 3VR CrimeDex:
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To learn more about 3VR CrimeDex, an online community where fraud, loss prevention, and law enforcement professionals collaborate to solve cases faster, visit www.crimedex.com.