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Guides

26 hands-on guides, from a first count to a full study. Each one says exactly what to click, and 17 of them can be done with the two sample videos alone. The application shows the same guides under Help, Guides, with a panel that stays beside the page while you follow along.

Beginner

One camera or clip and one kind of drawing. Results in minutes.

  1. Guide 01: Take the tour and set up CV-Scope

    Start CV-Scope, run the first-run setup with a sample video, and learn where projects, cameras, experiments, runs and data live.

    Time
    15 minutes
    You need
    CV-Scope installed on this computer
    • Setup
    • Sample videos

  2. Guide 02: Count people crossing a line

    Draw one counting line over the corridor clip, run an experiment, and read how many people crossed it in each direction.

    Time
    15 minutes
    You need
    The corridor sample video
    • People
    • Sample videos

  3. Guide 03: Measure screen time with a webcam

    Measure how long someone sits at a desk, using the computer's own webcam, one zone and the dwell time CV-Scope records for it.

    Time
    10 minutes, then as long as you record
    You need
    A webcam, built in or USB
    • Occupancy and dwell

  4. Guide 04: Count visits to a room with a webcam

    Count how many people come into a room, how long each one stays and when they leave, with one zone over the whole picture.

    Time
    15 minutes, then as long as you record
    You need
    A webcam, built in or USB, that sees the room
    • Occupancy and dwell
    • People

  5. Guide 05: Count people in and out of a door

    Put a gate across a doorway, point its arrow out of the room, and name the two directions Out and In with two small rules.

    Time
    15 minutes
    You need
    The corridor sample video, or a webcam that sees a door
    • People
    • Sample videos

  6. Guide 06: Watch how long a pet spends on the sofa

    Track only cats or dogs, draw a zone over the sofa, and read how long the pet spent there and when.

    Time
    10 minutes, then a few hours of recording
    You need
    A webcam that sees the sofa, and a cat or a dog
    • Occupancy and dwell

  7. Guide 07: Count pedestrians, bicycles and cars

    Count several kinds of objects with the same lines, read the counts per class, and see why a cyclist counts as a person and a bicycle.

    Time
    15 minutes
    You need
    The street sample video
    • Traffic
    • Sample videos

  8. Guide 08: Leave part of the picture out with an ignore area

    Draw an ignore area so detections in part of the picture never reach any count, and compare two runs of the same clip.

    Time
    10 minutes
    You need
    The street scene from guide 07
    • Traffic
    • Sample videos

Intermediate

Several scene objects, rules, routes and comparisons.

  1. Guide 09: Measure room occupancy with a crowding alert

    Cover a floor with a zone, read how many people were inside at once and for how long, and record an event whenever the area gets crowded.

    Time
    15 minutes
    You need
    The corridor sample video
    • Occupancy and dwell
    • Sample videos

  2. Guide 10: Measure waiting time in a queue

    Read how long people stay in a waiting area, and add a rule that records every wait longer than a limit as a named event.

    Time
    15 minutes
    You need
    The corridor scene from guide 09
    • Occupancy and dwell
    • Sample videos

  3. Guide 11: Which way do people go? A route-choice study

    Import a ready-made scene with an entrance gate, two exit gates and two routes, run it, and read route shares, outcomes and decision times.

    Time
    20 minutes
    You need
    The corridor sample video and the sample scene file
    • Routes and rules
    • People
    • Sample videos

  4. Guide 12: Compare how much each area is used

    Split a floor into several zones and compare their occupied time, then apply the same idea to parking bays with an overstay flag.

    Time
    20 minutes
    You need
    The corridor sample video
    • Occupancy and dwell
    • Analysis
    • Sample videos

  5. Guide 13: Record sequences with rules

    Write rules in plain terms, such as a person crosses the entrance and then enters the centre within 10 seconds, and find the events they record.

    Time
    20 minutes
    You need
    The route scene from guide 11
    • Routes and rules
    • Sample videos

  6. Guide 14: Compare two conditions side by side

    Duplicate an experiment, change exactly one condition, run both, and compare them on the Analysis page. The practice compares two detectors.

    Time
    25 minutes
    You need
    The route scene from guide 11
    • Analysis
    • Evaluation
    • Sample videos

  7. Guide 15: See where people walk with heatmaps and paths

    Read the trajectory heatmap of a run, replay the video with paths and event markers, and follow a single anonymous track.

    Time
    15 minutes
    You need
    Any finished run, for example from guide 02
    • Analysis
    • Sample videos

Advanced

Calibration, accuracy, network cameras, integrations, deployment, recognition, video recording, the Anomaly Assistant and relationships.

  1. Guide 16: Measure walking speed with calibration

    Tell CV-Scope how big the floor really is, with one known distance or four measured points, and read speeds in metres per second.

    Time
    25 minutes
    You need
    The route scene from guide 11, and a tape measure for a real camera
    • Analysis
    • Sample videos

  2. Guide 17: Check the accuracy of your counts

    Count a clip yourself, judge the recorded events one by one, log what was missed, and read the counting error, precision and recall of the run.

    Time
    30 minutes
    You need
    The run from guide 02, or any run on a video file
    • Evaluation
    • Sample videos

  3. Guide 18: Monitor a place with a network camera

    Connect an RTSP or HTTP camera, test the stream, keep a run alive through dropouts, and watch load and storage during long monitoring.

    Time
    30 minutes, then days or weeks of monitoring
    You need
    An IP camera with an RTSP or HTTP video stream on your network
    • Monitoring
    • Setup

  4. Guide 19: Choose and benchmark the detector and tracker

    See what this computer can run, benchmark detectors on your own footage, pick presets, and switch to BoT-SORT for moving cameras or crowded scenes.

    Time
    30 minutes
    You need
    The corridor sample video and one or more installed detectors
    • Hardware and models
    • Sample videos

  5. Guide 20: Send events to other tools with webhooks and the API

    Post events to another system the moment they happen, receive them with a short script, and read, export and control runs through the REST API.

    Time
    30 minutes
    You need
    The scene from guide 02 and a terminal
    • Integration
    • Sample videos

  6. Guide 21: Run a real study from start to finish

    Plan the study, prepare a dedicated machine or Docker, choose the database and privacy settings, test before recording, and keep the data safe.

    Time
    1 to 2 hours of preparation
    You need
    A computer for the study, and permission to record where you record
    • Setup
    • Monitoring

  7. Guide 22: Recognize an enrolled person and a registered vehicle Licensed

    Unlock the licensed recognition modules, enroll one person with the guided live capture, register one vehicle, and build rules that fire only for them.

    Time
    60 minutes
    You need
    A recognition licence, a camera that sees faces at close range, and the sample clips
    • Monitoring

  8. Guide 23: Record video of events for review

    Keep a clip around each event, one clip per visit from entry to exit, or the whole run, and watch why each event fired on the Video review page.

    Time
    20 minutes
    You need
    A live camera, such as a webcam, and some free disk space
    • Monitoring
    • Evaluation

  9. Guide 24: Watch a room for changes with the Anomaly Assistant

    Let the Anomaly Assistant learn the normal picture of a room, zone or stall and report objects that appear, disappear or move, and presence where nobody should be, with before and after pictures and an optional description by a vision language model.

    Time
    30 minutes
    You need
    A camera on a place that should stay as it is (a webcam on a room works), and optionally a vision language model
    • Monitoring

  10. Guide 25: Connect people, vehicles and places with relationships

    Turn tracks, recognized identities, zones and routes into time-bounded relationships with a confidence and evidence, build relationship rules, correlate several observations into one event, and read it all as a graph, a timeline and a summary.

    Time
    40 minutes
    You need
    The route scene from guide 11 (corridor sample video)
    • Relationships and multi-camera
    • Sample videos

  11. Guide 26: Follow people and vehicles across cameras

    Describe where your cameras are and how one can move between them, then follow a person or a vehicle from camera to camera - with the time each move took, the expected time, the evidence and the confidence - on a timeline, a site plan and an interactive relationship graph.

    Time
    45 minutes
    You need
    Two or more cameras on one site with relationships turned on (guide 25); the face or plate module for identity-based moves (guide 22)
    • Relationships and multi-camera

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