1. Gold ADP Application Workshop
Aimetis Symphony
Gold ADP Application Workshop
Please note the purpose of this workshop is to inspire rather than encourage copying

2. This is Company Overview Founded: 2003 Ownership
Private, 50% owned by institutional funds
Business
Network video management & analytics software & services
Offices
Waterloo, Canada (HQ); Shanghai, China; Frankfurt, Germany
450+ Certified Resellers in 100 countries
Support for +40 IP camera manufacturers
Key Verticals
Education, Government, Retail, Transportation
Offers IP video surveillance software and tightly integrated video analytics. While Aimetis offers its software without analytics, it is strongest where customers choose to use analytics.
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3. Aimetis Products - Symphony
Single product, three license versions to choose from
Symphony Standard: IP Video Recording
Symphony Professional: IP Video & Integrated Alarm Management
Symphony Enterprise: Video analytics
License Strategy
Mix & match different licenses on same server
One Camera. One License.
Unrestricted camera replacement (license tied to MAC address of server not cameras)
Easy upgrades: simple license purchase
Projects
Munich Airport (2000 cameras); Novi Sad, Serbia (1000 cameras); ICA Supermarket, etc.
Aimetis Symphony™ Standard - IP Video Recording
Aimetis Symphony™ Standard is the ideal choice for organizations making
a transition from analog CCTV or DVR technology to IP video. The Standard
license is installed on commercial-off-the-shelf hardware, supports an
unlimited number of cameras and features robust video recording features,
such as; remote live view, video playback, record on motion and PTZ control.
Aimetis Symphony™ Professional - Integrated Alarm Management
Aimetis Symphony™ Professional combines the robust video recording
features of the Standard license with enterprise wide system scalability,
third party system integration, and alarm management capabilities creating
a centralized system for security administration and response.
Aimetis Symphony™ Enterprise - Intelligent Video Surveillance
Aimetis Symphony™ Enterprise incorporates all the capabilities of Standard
and Professional and adds several Aimetis VE Series™ Video Analytics
algorithms, changing the use of video from a passive recording device to a
proactive, enterprise intelligence gathering tool.
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4. Aimetis Products Other products Aimetis People Counter
Running on Axis Camera Application Platform
Aimetis SDK
Enables solution providers to customize solutions, ensure system interoperability and centralize event management across multiple systems, including:
Access Control
Intrusion Detection
ATM
Building Management
Reliable, Cost Effective & Flexible
Accurate People Counting
The Aimetis People Counter tracks the bi-directional flow of objects as they pass through a user definable line. The application is designed for entrances and exits and minimizes counting errors caused by environmental factors such as shadows, lighting changes and reflections.
Reporting
The Aimetis People Counter provides on-camera reporting that can be queried by hour, day, month or year. Reports are available as tables and charts to make communication of intelligent video data simple and informative. Results can be exported directly into Microsoft Excel. For advanced reporting capability, integration with Video Management Software such as Aimetis Symphony™ is required.
Small Footprint
Video analysis and reporting is executed on the camera instead of a central server, drastically increasing the scalability of video analytics. Combined with minimal IT infrastructure and support, the stand-alone solution is ideal for both small and large camera deployments.
Integration
Integration with video management software such as Aimetis Symphony™ or other 3rd party products is made easy through the open interface of the Aimetis People Counter.
Rich API / SDK for 3rd party system integration: The SDK includes numerous sample applications with source code, which demonstrate communicating over a TCP/IP network.
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5. System Architecture Web Client: http://SERVERNAME:50000
A typical site would have many desktop computers with the client software connecting to a dedicated server computer running the server software.
At larger sites, the server software may be run on multiple computers linked together to form a Server Farm.
Multiple client options (thick, web( video wall, PDA client(winCE, windows mobile))
Web Client:
PDA Client: Windows Mobile, winCE
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6. Symphony Architecture
Server: Video recording and analytics
commercial off-the-shelf servers (COTS)
Unlimited number of cameras can be mounted to Server Farm(has been tested with up to 200 concurrent client connections)
Server virtualization (VMWare and MS Virtual Server)
MS Active Directory integration
Server health monitoring /SNMP support: Symphony Server sends every 15 minutes for each camera a health packet which contains health information about the server. Health Packets are sent as UDP packets.
Support for HP OpenView and MS Office Manager
Client: UI for all tasks including server configuration, monitoring, searching and reporting.
Dependencies:
MS .NET Framework 2.0 (32 / 64bit)
MS Data Access Components
MS Extendible SNMP Agent
OPC Core Components
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7. Server: Data Organization
Registry keys: Some configuration data for the server is stored here, such as the database connection string
Configuration information stored in MS SQL Server Express
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8. Server: Core Services
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9. (For configuration data)
Server Farm
Distribute the work load of camera processing across several servers
Server Failover / Redundancy
Fail over camera processing from a ’down’ server to a ’redundant’ server
Devices, users, rules and alarms tied to the ‘farm’ not the server
All ’live’ and ’redundan’t servers run the same software services, share a license file and can potentially run the processing of any camera
Configuration data redundancy
...
Database Cluster
(For configuration data)
Server 1
Server 2
Server n
DB1
DB n
Data Store
NAS or SAN
(Configuration Data)
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10. Main View
All elements except for the main video pane and Timeline can be docked to a second monitor
Event driven timeline: Shows activities and alarms

11. Live View / Playback Live & playback mode integrated in main view
Overlay
Tracking boxes, tracking paths, time, camera messages, etc.
Multiview
Can display up to 25 cameras simultaneously
>1 multiviews can be opened
Carousel
Loop through multiple cameras across multiple servers in a single view, pausing on each camera for a defined period of time.
Integrated in main view
Same video pane used for playing both live and recorded videos
Demo
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12. PTZ Mechanical PTZ Camera Tour Digital PTZ Support for Axis Joysticks
Digital Tracking(Digitally zoom in on hot spots)
Support for Axis Joysticks
Demo
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13. Analytics
Differenciate between foreground movement & environmental change
Process video and produce metadata used by search engine or rule engine
More than one analytic can be enabled per camera
Video Source
Video Engine
Rule Engine
Search Engine
Alarms
Search Results
Video
Metadata
Applications
Motion Tracking, Object Classification, People / Vehicle Counting, Virtual Fence, Alarm zone(s) / restricted areas, Left/Removed Object, Wrong Direction, Loitering, Dwell Time, Occupancy, Auto-PTZ Tracking, Automatic License Plate Recognition
VMD is a way of defining activity in a scene by analyzing image data and differences in a series of images. VMD detects any movements as activity
Compared to VMD, it goes a step further than VMD and attempts to determine what pixel changes in the scene are caused by foreground movement vs encrionmental changes.
Analytics ignore pixel changes caused by environment
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14. Analytics: Three Key factors
1. Selecting the right engine for different environment
3 key factors infuence accuracy
No silver bullet!
VE130: Detect simple pixel changes in the stream. Configure: mask+size. Against VE150/180/ Demo
VE140: Detects if video signal is all one color (such as from analog capture card). Environment independent. NO Config
VE141 Camera Tampering: Can happen if the camera has been moved or lens get spray painted or a large object is placed in front of the camera. Default settings no need to be changed in most situations.
VE150: Most advanced motion tracking analytic for indoor or outdoor. It has ability to classify the difference btw people and vehicles, indoor people counting and can detect if the object is stopping, starting or simply moving through the scene.
Indoor: Overhead people counting/tracking, 45-degree people tracking, Dwell time...
Outdoor: person/vehicle classification
Optionally GPU(graphic card’s processing power) or hardware acceleration can be used(via OpenCL) instead of CPU. Increase scalability of Symphony
VE250: Compare to VE150, easier to config but no object classification. Uses more CPU.
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15. Analytics: Three Key factors
2. Camera placement & image quality
3 key factors infuence accuracy
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16. Analytics: Three Key factors
3. Proper configurations
Typical configuration
Analysis FPS: Can be set lower than the record frame rate
Capture resolution
Analysis resolution
Motion mask
Perspective(Camera position)
used to help with object classification
configured once per camera
More than one analytic can be enabled per camera
One motion mask & perspective per analytic/preset(for PTZ cameras)
Analytics needs to be enabled and configured per camera before rules/alarms are generated.
More than one analytic can be enabled per camera(e.g. Item removed & people counting)
Demo:
Available analytics
Typical Configurations
Perspective (VE352 Left and Removed Item Detection)
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17. Analytics Hardware requirements Depending on:
Type of analytics running
Number of analytics running
Image size & frame rate
Typically 12 cameras can be analyzed on a single Intel Core2 Duo
Hardware requirements (CPU & RAM) , hardware calculator provided
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18. Event Management Rules Special Actions
Uses meta-data created by video engine
Allows combination of sub-events
Events must occur in sequence/within a specified time period
Typical configurations
Alarm mask(zone), actions, alarm schedule
Many alarm masks can be set per analytic
More than one Rule can be enabled per analytic
Special Actions
Enable another rule
PTZ Auto-tracking
Launch external program on the server (no GUI)
OPC
Demo
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19. Video Search Event-driven Video Search Recurring Search
Pinpoint specific events by setting search parameters such as:
Search by time, location, activity
Review and export qualifying snippets of video
Export as .aira file (together with Symphony Player)
Export as MPEG files
Recurring Search
Search with Mask:
A bit like Smart search, but is done in all recordings at the same time.
Demo
P5534-E, Simple Search, VE250 Motion Tracking
Search with Mask
Search with Fence/Tripwire
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20. Reporting On-demand business intelligence reports Report Format
Summery
Object Counts Across a line
Textual
Object counts across a user definable line per camera
Object Counts
Object counts across many cameras
Heat Map
Graphical
Overlays traffic patterns on image
Object Satistics
Compares object traffic and dwell time
Alarm Counts
Summarizes alarm totals
Demo
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21. Demo Session A typical use cases Add a camera Configure analytics
Configure rules
Search
Report
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22. Resources Application Video Samples Documentations
Documentations
Downloadable from Aimetis Xnet (
Just show one or two most interesting ones
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23. Gold ADP Application Validation
Why we are doing it
Ensuring Gold ADP applications have early support for our new products
Ensuring Gold ADP applications work well with our products
Ensuring Gold ADP applications support our market driving functions
How we are doing it
Test tool: QACE
Wireshark
Scripts
Validation results
Validation reports
API coverage report
Focus is not on investigating the application’s functionality but to investigate the level of integration with Axis product
Axis Products: including new cameras, APIs, SDKs, applications
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24. Questions & Answers
Thank you!
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