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Introduction

An investigation is your one stop shop for footage, reports, and searches when investigating activity. Investigations allow you to filter through thousands of detections across hundreds of hours of video footage quickly and easily.

Work collaboratively with a team, or by yourself. Tag detections and video snippets with commentary, and add to a simple report. Like everything else in VisualCortex, Investigations have Permissions, and every action is strictly audited.

An Investigation acts as a container for Sources, Models, Searches and Reports:

Investigation Concepts

Sources​

Sources are your Video Sources, whether they be Live Video from live cameras, or Archived footage. Easily upload video from your browser, or import from Video Management Systems or Cloud Storage.

Models​

Each investigation is associated with multiple Models. Examples might include Face Detection, Person Attributes, License Plate Recognition, Fallen people, Weapons and more. Simply add a model to an investigation in order to ensure that your Sources are processed using those models.

Note: It's helpful to separate out your sources into different investigations with different models. eg. Don't run License Plate Recognition on sources which will only have pedestrian foot traffic.

Searches​

Searches are a core part of an Investigation. Specify what you're looking for in your sources, and easily filter through thousands of results. The Search page is very powerful, allowing you to view thumbnails, video snippets, detected objects in context and more. Filter by sources, Geolocation, tags and more. Add in annotations to prepare your report. Searches are also collaborative, allowing multiple people to search at the same time in the same Investigation.

Reports​

Reports are ultimately what get produced as a result of performing an investigation. Reports show all annotated detections in an investigation made by users. Free-form notes can also be added, so that a comprehensive timeline of events can be built up. See maps, detections, video snippets and more. Easily export to PDF.