People Analytics uses powerful edge-based camera capabilities to detect people and faces, and filter results based on clothing color, apparent sex, and the presence of backpacks. To have these extra filters enabled, contact our Support team.
People Counting
When scrubbing through a camera's historical video clips, green bounding boxes will appear over all detected people. In addition, the scrubber will display a number indicating the number of people detected in the frame. The blue lines that appear as you are scrubbing through a clip give you a sense of which parts of the clip contain the most people activity.
Motion Search with People Filter
To perform a Motion Search, select a region of interest on the camera's live feed. Then, to enable People Filter, select People next to Filter. Command will show you historical clips where motion occurred in the region of interest and at least one person was detected in frame.
Enable Person History
All Verkada cameras perform people detection (as outlined above) out of the box. However, to enable more complex analytics, such as the ability to search for faces, and for people by clothing color, Person History must be turned on.
Note: Person History is incompatible with Audio. Audio must be disabled before enabling Person History to provide adequate storage capacity for high-resolution imaging.
- Select a camera
- Click the Info button
- Click Settings
- Choose the Analytics menu option
- Toggle the Enable Person History slider
Using Person History
Person History can be seen on individual cameras, as well as across all cameras in the Organization.
Person History for an Individual Camera
- Select a camera
- Go to People (You will not see this button if Person History is not enabled)
- (Optional) Choose a date and time range with Date Range
- (Optional) Once results appear, select the filter icon to further filter results by shirt color, pants color, apparent sex, and the presence of backpacks. You may also sort results by Date or Relevance. Sorting by Date shows results in chronological order. Sorting by Relevance shows the people who best match your sorting criteria first.
- (Optional) Click the download icon on a result to save the image or click the image to play a clip
In this example, we search this camera for all people wearing a gray top who appear male.
Person History Across All Cameras
- Select the search bar at the top of Command
- Next to People, select All Results
- All detected people across all cameras will be displayed
- Use Select Cameras or Sites to filter the results shown by specific sites and cameras
- Configure the Date Range to only show people results from a particular range of dates
- Select the filter icon to further refine your search by shirt color, pants color, apparent sex, and the presence of backpacks.
Enable Face Search
Face Search leverages People History to allow you to filter results by a particular face.
- Select a camera
- Go to INFO
- Select Settings
- Choose the Analytics menu option
- Toggle the Enable Face Search slider
Once enabled, the camera will load new firmware, reboot, and begin analyzing faces.
Using Face Search
A Face Search can be performed on individual cameras, as well as across all cameras in the Organization.
Perform a Face Search on an Individual Camera
- Select a camera
- Go to People (You will not see this button if Person History is not enabled)
- Detected Faces are displayed
- Choose a particular face or select All Faces to see all faces captured by this camera
- Command shows all clips from this camera where the selected face was in frame
If the face for which you are searching does not appear, try uploading an image of the person's face.
- Click the gray icon of the person with a + sign under Detected Faces (indicated by the blue arrow in the figure below)
- Upload a photo from your computer
- Clips matching the person in the photo will appear
- (Optional) Click the download icon to save the image or click the image to play the clip
Perform a Face Search Across All Cameras
There are two ways to perform a Face Search across all cameras in the organization.
If you have not yet begun your Face Search:
- Select the search bar at the top of Command
- Select one of the faces shown, upload your own image, or choose All Results to see more faces
If you have already conducted a Face Search on a camera:
- Select Search all cameras to expand your search to include clips from all cameras where this face was seen
You can refer to Face Search on Mobile Apps to perform a face search on our mobile app.