ViewPorts™ Management Suite

Capturing and delivering the world's most information-rich surveillance video is only of value if it's presented to security teams in ways that are intuitive, flexible, and readily useful in busy and potentially stressful security environments. This is where Pixel Velocity's ViewPorts™ Management Suite plays a vital role in the end-to-end solution.

Harnessing the unique features of Pixel Video Fusion, ViewPorts arms security personnel with overview and analysis tools that allow them to quickly assess security threats and respond appropriately. These tools are based on efficient utilization of high-definition, multi-camera panoramic video that can be instantly searched, retrieved, and disseminated to incident responders - enabling unsurpassed situational awareness and rapid reaction to events as they unfold.

ViewPorts also includes advanced features with forensic-quality detail for critical security situations such as perimeter intrusions, behavior and activity identification and detection, and object/subject verification.

Pixel Video Fusion is unique in it ability to extract maximum information value from surveillance video, and ViewPorts is essential to delivering this information exactly where, when, and how it's needed.

Multi-Camera Stitching and Virtual Camera Views

A single Pixel Velocity HD camera can cover 15 times as much area as a common 4 CIF surveillance camera, so imagine the operational simplicity and security advantages that can be gained by stitching together multiple Pixel Velocity cameras into a contiguous 'super-panorama' virtual camera. ViewPorts enables flexible HD camera stitching - horizontally, vertically, or both - to create wide-area virtual camera views that can be customized to the needs and priorities of specific users. For example, in a sports stadium environment, one virtual view can be created for stadium security personnel, another view for automotive traffic control, and yet another for municipal emergency response teams. Different virtual views from the same set of physical cameras, and all with high-definition detail available wherever needed in the field of view.

Users can also assemble camera views in a granular, incremental fashion to create a comprehensive mosaic. As their demand for increasing field of view grows, they can simply add one camera at a time - stitching its view to the existing view to reflect the newly expanded scene.

And, unlike alternative approaches that have trouble maintaining a clean, natural-looking moving image at the intersection edges of the stitched cameras, ViewPorts utilizes the tightly time-synchronized video from all cameras to maintain the highest-quality virtual camera views with excellent subject motion continuity across the total field of view. With Pixel Video Fusion, fully synchronized video capture across all HD cameras translates directly into a better, more useful, and far less fatiguing viewing environment for security personnel.

Multi-Camera Stitching Enables 'Virtual Cameras'

Part of Pixel Video Fusion's 'no compromises' approach to full situational awareness is its ability to simultaneously deliver excellent localized detail and wide-area coverage. No need to sacrifice the overall context of a scene to closely examine small but critical details, and no need to forfeit zoom-in capabilities to keep a broad span of coverage in full view. ViewPorts includes digital pan-and-zoom functionality and high-definition 'Region of Interest' (ROI) views to make detailed drill-down investigations possible on the same screen as the wide-angle view. Security personnel can more easily extract useful information and make important associations between physically separate elements in a scene - for example, determining one car's license plate number while simultaneously monitoring another suspicious vehicle nearby.

Search and Discovery Tools

The Pixel Video Fusion architecture delivers highly effective real-time search and discovery tools for wide-area surveillance applications. Security personnel can quickly confirm that an event occurred, find the subject(s) of interest, and alert first responders with important incident-related information.

Advanced Search and Discovery Tools Aid Proactive Response

The 'timeline scrub bar' is another ViewPorts feature that leverages the Pixel Video Fusion architecture. All cameras in a Pixel Video Fusion system are tightly time-synchronized with each other at the hardware level, so every HD image frame from every camera is accurately time-stamped. As a result, ViewPorts allows security operators to smoothly search backward and forward in time while keeping all camera views - even complex stitched views - properly synchronized for display.

Intelligent Network Utilization

A common concern regarding multi-megapixel video surveillance solutions is that they are expensive in terms of required bandwidth capacity and related network infrastructure upgrades. Pixel Video Fusion addresses this issue directly through an intelligent approach to video distribution. Security personnel using ViewPorts retrieve full high-definition video streams only 'on demand', thereby reducing the incremental bandwidth requirements for surveillance operations, and allowing Pixel Video Fusion to be implemented as a cost-effective 'drop-in' surveillance solution for existing networks.