Configure Visual Tracking

Visual tracking allows you to track an individual (such as a suspect) across different areas without losing sight of her/him. Before you can use this function, you need to associate a camera (hereafter named as "camera A") with other cameras nearby. After that, icons representing the nearby cameras will be overplayed on the view of camera A. You can click these icons to redirect to the associated cameras' views during live view or playback.

1. In the top left corner of the platform, select > Security Monitoring > Video > Video Application > Visual Tracking.
2. Select an area from the area list.

   The page will display the thumbnails of the latest view of the cameras that support visual tracking settings in the selected area.

3. Optional: Check Include Sub-Area to display the available cameras in the sub-area(s) of the selected area.
4. More the cursor to one of the thumbnail, and then click the appeared Set Visual Tracking to open visual tracking settings page.
5. Optional: Click Refresh to get the latest view of the camera.
6. Click Add Related Camera to open the camera list panel, and select a camera from the camera list or search for a specific camera by keywords, and then click OK.

   The icon representing the related camera will be displayed on the view of the current camera. And the thumbnail of the view of the related camera will be listed on the right side.

7. Drag the icon to a proper position on the view according to its actual mounting position.
8. Optional: Hover the cursor over the thumbnail list on the right side, and then click Set Visual Tracking to set visual tracking for the related camera.
   Note:

   You can repeat this step to set visual tracking for more cameras. After that, you can view the visual tracking route of different cameras. You can click one camera to view its corresponding visual tracking image.

   Figure 1 Set Visual Tracking
9. Optional: Hover the cursor over the thumbnail list on the right side, and then click Delete to cancel the association between the current camera and its related camera.
10. Click in the upper-left corner to save the above settings and back to the visual tracking page.

    The security personnel will be able to use the video tracking function on the Control Client.

Visual Tracking in Hallway

The following picture shows the monitoring image of camera A in a hallway. There are three directions: B, C, and D, and each direction is monitored by camera B, C, and D respectively.

In this case, you can drag camera B to the B position so as to overlay the icon of camera B on the monitoring image, and then do similar operations for camera C and camera D. After that, when an individual passes by the hallway and turns to direction B, the security personnel can click the icon of camera B on the view of camera A to redirect to the view of camera B.

Figure 2 Monitoring Image of Camera A