Milestone Analytics 2.2 User Manual
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Milestone XProtect Analytics 2.2; User’s Manual
Target Audience for this Document
This document is aimed at end users of the Milestone XProtect Analytics solutions for license plate
recognition, perimeter protection, motion detection and countless other purposes.
This document describes how to configure an existing Smart Client for use with video content
analytics, and subsequently how to view analytics data together with live and recorded video in the
Smart Client
For information about installing a Smart Client, and using the Smart Client for other purposes than
analytics, see the separate XProtect Smart Client User’s Manual available from your surveillance
system administrator or from www.milestonesys.com.
For information about configuring the XProtect Analytics solution on the surveillance system, refer
to the separate XProtect Analytics Administrator’s Manuals, available on the XProtect Analytics
software DVD as well as from www.milestonesys.com.
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Copyright, Trademarks and Important Information
Copyright
© 2011 Milestone Systems A/S.
Trademarks
XProtect is a registered trademark of Milestone Systems A/S.
Microsoft® and Windows® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
All other trademarks mentioned in this document are trademarks of their respective owners.
Disclaimer
This document is intended for general information purposes only, and due care has been taken in
its preparation.
Any risk arising from the use of this information rests with the recipient, and nothing herein should
be construed as constituting any kind of warranty.
Milestone Systems A/S reserve the right to make adjustments without prior notification.
All names of people and organizations used in this document’s examples are fictitious. Any
resemblance to any actual organization or person, living or dead, is purely coincidental and
unintended.
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Contents
PRODUCT OVERVIEW ................................................. 5
CONFIGURATION ........................................................ 7
Plugin Required .................................................................................... 7
Creating Views for Analytics ................................................................. 8
Create Many or Few Views? .................................................................. 9
Troubleshooting .................................................................................... 9
VIEWING LIVE VIDEO & ANALYTICS DATA ............... 11
Selecting an Analytics View ................................................................ 11
View’s Structure ................................................................................. 11
BROWSING RECORDED VIDEO & ANALYTICS DATA .. 13
Selecting an Analytics View ................................................................ 13
View’s Structure ................................................................................. 13
Selecting Incidents in the Table .......................................................... 14
Table Displays 100 Incidents at a Time .................................................. 14
You Control the Table’s Content ............................................................ 14
Sorting Table Columns ........................................................................ 14
Filtering Table Columns ....................................................................... 14
Browsing Video from Around Detected Incidents ............................... 15
INTERPRETING THE COLORED OVERLAYS ................ 16
USING THE TIME SYNCHRONIZATION SLIDER ......... 17
REMOVAL.................................................................. 18
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Product Overview
Milestone XProtect Analytics provides an intelligent yet highly intuitive solution for video content
analysis tasks such as license plate recognition (LPR), perimeter protection, left objects detection,
etc. XProtect Analytics works in tight integration with Microsoft® Windows® components as well as
a range of different Milestone products.
XProtect Smart Client is the client application used for viewing video combined with analytics
data wherever you require.
Depending on which video content analysis plugins are used with your organization’s XProtect
Analytics solution, you can work with:
License plate recognition (LPR)
Perimeter protection
Detection of persons, vehicles, etc. moving in unauthorized patterns or directions
Unattended objects detection
Loitering detection
Tailgating detection
Crowd formation detection
People counting
Detection of illegally parked vehicles
Detection of removed items
Advanced video motion detection (VMD)
Countless other purposes (thanks to the XProtect Analytics Generic VA plugin, which allows
third-party video content analysis applications to supply data for XProtect Analytics)
XProtect Analytics lets you easily combine video content analysis alerts with Milestone surveillance
system features, such as recording, activation of outputs, etc. XProtect Analytics is therefore highly
interesting in areas such as retail, transportation, education, industry, government, etc.
Basic Data Flow
In an XProtect Analytics solution, video and analytics data basically flows between the products in
the following way:
Cameras send raw video streams to the surveillance system.
The video streams are passed on to an analytics component on the surveillance system, which
processes the video streams in one or more steps: 1) Image analysis, for example for license plate
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recognition or left object detection, and 2) Match against associated positive and/or negative lists,
if required.
Whenever a license plate, left object, etc. is
recognized, the surveillance system stores the
analytics information together with timestamp
information.
In the Smart Client, users are able to the analytics
data together with video from the surveillance system.
The time-linking of the analytics data and video makes
sure that Smart Client users are able to view and
browse the analytics data and video simultaneously.
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