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Metadata is logical information extracted from video streams for easier camera management and retrieval of information that describes object-related content in the camera FOV.

In Axxon One, metadata can be obtained in two ways:

  1. by By analyzing video streams on Server ; by detection tools.
  2. By by receiving metadata from edge devices camera built-in analytics (see Embedded Detection Tools). 

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To extract metadata from video, you have to de-compress and analyze the video stream, which , in its turn, increases the Server's workload, thus limiting the number of available camera channels.

The following tools are used for server-side analysis and metadata generation:

  1. Object Tracker.

  2. Neural Tracker.

    VMD.

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    Object tracker and Neural Tracker generates generate metadata containing the following information about moving objects in sceneFOV: object type, position, size and color, motion speed and direction, etc.


  3. VMD.

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    VMD generates less accurate data; it . It does not detect object type and color.


  4. Face detection tools.

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    Face detection metadata contain contains facial bounding boxes and their positions, as well as facial vectors.


  5. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (LPR/ANPR) tools.

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    ANPR metadata contain contains license plate bounding boxes and their positions, as well as vehicle registration numbers.


  6. Pose detection.

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    Metadata from pose detection tools contains information on positions and postures pose (skeleton) of all persons people in FOV. 


  7. Equipment detection tool (PPE)

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    Equipment detection metadata contains information about the position of all the people in FOV.


The metadata is used for the following system options:

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If a camera uses several sources of metadata, the required source is selected automatically, except for MomentQuest.

To perform facialface/license number searches, only metadata from corresponding detection tools is used.

By default, metadata is stored as files are stored in Server's the object trajectory database : C:\Program Files\AxxonSoft\Axxon One\Metadata\in the local Server directory that was selected when installing Axxon One (see Installation) in the vmda_db\VMDA_DB.0\vmda_schema ; if subfolder.

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If necessary, you can place

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metadata on any available network storage (see Configuring storage of the system log and metadata).