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EyesOnIt Key Concepts

EyesOnIt was designed for people who are not data scientists or computer vision experts. This section introduces the key concepts used by the EyesOnIt UI in a non-technical way. These concepts provide the background for the user guide that follows.

The image below shows a representative EyesOnIt camera configuration page with a region and detection settings.

EyesOnIt Monitoring General Settings

This section covers the following key concepts:

Video Stream URLs​

To get video from your camera

Detection Regions​

To tell EyesOnIt where the action is

Detection Configurations​

To tell EyesOnIt what to look for

Confidence Levels​

An important concept for generating alerts

Object Detection​

Details about object type, natural language, face recognition and similarity matching

Frame Rate​

How often to check for activity

Motion Detection​

Detecing motion before detecting objects

How archive search, live search and indexing work together

Face Recognition​

How EyesOnIt thinks about groups, people and face matching

Image Similarity​

How to search or detect by example image instead of text

Alerting​

Generating and sending alert notifications