Motion Mapping with the iCatcher Clump Engine

The iCatcher 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.

All iCatcher feeds have a motion map facility. This shows a colour gradient contour map representing the total movement in the image over the last 24 hours. To access the motion map, right click on feed in the tree list and select motion map.

< Standard motion map generated by analysing the movement across the whole image.

The motion map can be used for a variety of purposes, but for this example we will look at a retail shop. Finding out the effectiveness of your display area in attracting customer interest is key to monitoring effective merchandising. A camera placed on the ceiling looking down on your displays allows you to build up a motion map showing where your "hotspots" and "coldspots" are and action can be taken accordingly.

< ICE motion map generated from the paths taken by objects moving through the field of view.