Hey guys, Mike from CCTV Camera Pros here. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate one of
our facial recognition cameras on our Viewtron NVR, so that's a Viewtron AI camera behind me.
And I'm going to show you how to set up facial detection on the NVR, which will detect any faces
that come into this area. And then I'm going to set facial recognition to identify certain faces
that when they're identified, it'll trigger an alert, a push notification and recording,
and a bookmarked event on the NVR. Notice that I have that camera mounted pretty low. In order
to do face detection or facial recognition, ideally, the camera needs to be mounted as
level as possible to faces. So we have that camera mounted at six and a half feet high,
which is a good frame of reference to use. And you can see we just have it temporarily
set up because we're playing with it, we didn't even tuck the cable away yet.
But what we're going to do is I'm going to capture some faces via the facial detection
of that camera on the NVR, and then taking those snapshot images on the NVR and putting them into a
facial recognition database on the NVR to trigger the alert. Here's the live security camera view
on the NVR, and I'll switch to the full screen of the facial detection camera that we're going
to be using. And then I'm going to go to the menu system of the NVR and select settings right here.
And then on the main setting screens under AI event, I'm going to select facial recognition. And
then I'm going to select detection first, and you enable the checkbox, the enabled detection by IPC,
and then you draw that detection zone there on the screen. And then you could also display the
range of the face sizes by percentage. You can adjust these, and I'm just going to pose here
for a second and show you that that's a pretty good range for a closeup facial recognition.
And then when I'm done, I click on the apply button down here in the lower right and then
close that out. And I'm back at the live view. So I'm going to enable this target detection
screen over here on the right, that'll display all the faces that are detected. And you'll see
it captured James here. That wasn't planned for the video, but that's fine. I'm going to do a more
close-up shot for me because I want to add my face to the database, so I intentionally go closer to
the camera to get a more closer shot of my face because I'm going to use mine in the database.
So next, I'll click back there to close out that screen, and then I'm going to select the
intelligent analytics search from the menu over here. And then on the intelligent analytics search
screen, I'm going to select face and search for all the faces that were detected today.
As I mentioned, I had this enabled earlier, so there's a bunch of me in
here and a couple of the other guys. So what I want to do is if you click on any of them,
you could play back the video on the lower right, but that's not the main thing I want
to do. If I click on those three dots, I can select register from this menu.
And what the register does is it allows me to take that snapshot of my face and add it to the
facial recognition database. So I'll just give me a name here, and I'm not going to fill out
any of the other information, sex, birthdate, and all that stuff. I don't need that, but you do need
to add a group. So I'm going to add a group called Alarm because these are all the faces
that I want to trigger an alarm. So we'll add that group and we'll add Mike to the Alarm face group.
When I'm done, I can click exit. And then I'll add one more face.
So we'll add Greg. This is Greg, my business partner. And again, from more,
I can select register and then give Greg a name here. And I'm not going to fill out any of the
other details. I'm going to add him to that same alert group and then click okay. And then exit.
And then I'll close out of this screen. And now I'm back at the live view.
So the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go into settings and go into the
face database so you could see under the Alert group, there's two faces, mine and Greg's.
So I'll close that back out, and we will go back to the live security camera view again.
I'm going to set up facial recognition now. So I'm going to enable successful recognition
in the Face Group Alert that we just created and I'm going to set it to a 24 hours a day,
seven days a week schedule. And I'll set it to set up a push notification and a pop-up message box.
It's also going to record and create a thumbnail that's already set up. And
when I'm done, I'll click apply. I'll click the snapshot and I'll add snapshot as well.
So now I'm back at the live view again, and I'm going to enable the target detection again,
but I'm going to do it in a different way this time. You can also enable it by this
menu over here by selecting target detection, and that'll show you all the events that have occurred
previously too. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to exit the room and come back in,
and this time when it detects my face, it should match me up against my face in the
database. So let's see. Here's the match. There's the alert. So there's the alert, and
if I had my cell phone on and the push enabled, I would've got to push notification there too.
So when the face matches it shows what face it got matched up to in that target detection area.
So I'm going to test now without my hat. In the database, I'm wearing a hat,
so I want to see if it also detects my face with no hat. And it does with 89% accuracy.
Although the database has me wearing a hat, it can detect my face without the hat on as well.
So I'll click okay there to close that out. And if I wanted to play back any of the events,
you could click the playback button on any of these thumbnail images, and that'll start playing
back the recorded video and the player controls down here, you can go in forward or reverse.
And when you're done, you could just close out the screen by clicking that X in the lower right.
And now I'm back at the live view in the four-camera security camera view.
Guys, I hope this video has been helpful. I want to mention a couple of things before we wrap up.
So I think it was pretty clear, but just in case, facial detection is the camera's ability to detect
faces generically that come into view. Facial recognition is when you have a face database set
up on the Viewtron NVR to identify certain faces, and then take an alarm action on those, such as a
push notification to the mobile app. You could trigger an external alarm sensor like a light,
or a siren, or a pop-up event on the desktop software. That's the difference between face
detection and facial recognition. Again, in order to set up facial recognition on these Viewtron AI
security cameras, the camera has to be mounted pretty low. That six-and-a-half-foot height that
we used here worked very well, so I recommend using that and not going much higher than it.
In addition to the face detection and facial recognition features of these Viewtron AI cameras,
they can also be set up to with intrusion zones for human detection, vehicle detection,
and non-motorized vehicles like bicycles. So they could do any one of those types
of AI types of events. If you have any questions about any of this,
feel free to reach out to me anytime. I could be reached directly via email at
mike@cctvcamerapros.net. If you want to learn more about face detection, facial recognition,
and the other AI software functions that these Viewtron AI cameras have, we have
a whole bunch of demo videos on our website at www.cctvcamerapros.com/AI. Thank you for watching.