Intelligent Masking with the i-Catcher Clump Engine

The i-Catcher product range features ICE motion detection. This new detection method gives you much more information about what is happening in the image, and allows us to add advanced analytical functionality to our software. This ICE functionality is performed by the software and not in the camera, enabling you to utilise your existing cameras and maximise your investment.

When using ICE detection the software knows how many objects are in the image, which direction they came from, which direction they are currently travelling and so on. This enables us to embed some advanced functionality in the standard product.

In order to stop areas of unwanted movement causing false alerts most CCTV software solutions employ a masking technology, which prevents their system seeing the unwanted areas of the image. This involves the user selecting an area (often multiple areas) of the image to define areas where you do not want motion detection to occur.

i-catcher has an intelligent masking ability that works much better than the simple masking employed by other systems. The ICE intelligent mask allows you to still ignore the areas you want to mask from false alarms, but it will still track moving objects through the masked areas.