The Image Content Navigation (ICN) GUI module addresses a major issue in the management of large video surveillance systems, where the operators response time and general orientation during the process of tracking a moving object or person, is compromised by the necessity to associate a camera name or number to its exact physical location.

While a map based GUI partially addresses this concern by providing graphical representation of the cameras location on a map, it does not provide the operator with the means to track a person or a vehicle moving within a site, as they exit from one camera's coverage area and move to another camera's coverage area. The operator can consult his site map to choose the next camera required for continuous tracking of his object, but this method will introduce a slow response time and the moving object would likely to exit from the next cameras coverage area by the time the operator will access that camera.

With the ICN all that the operator has to do is mouse cursor hovering over pre defined sensitive areas within a camera's view and click to switch to the designated camera. The video will change in either real time or in time synched playback to view the area that the object has entered. Furthermore, the ICN function supports multiple object tailing by branching the tracking process to multiple views. The ICN support can be assigned to any number of channels.

Real-time object tailing through thousands of cameras.
Eliminates the need to remember camera locations.
Unification of security cameras into one continuous tracking system.
Significant reduction in costs related to video surveillance personnel.