Recommended Camera Settings for facial recognition
📌 Fixed shutter speed settings of 1/100, or more if needed.
- Slow shutter speeds (1/2, 1/15 for example) cause motion blur, which masks facial features needed for facial recognition. The tradeoff with faster shutter speed is that it will reduce the amount of light captured by the camera, darkening the scene, so you may need to increase the camera's brightness to compensate.
- Example Screenshot (from a HIKVision camera)
📌 I-Frame interval and Frames-Per-Second (FPS) both set to the same value: 20/20 recommended, 15/15 if network conditions aren't ideal.
- Receiving less than a I-Frame per second can cause us to miss important activity, as whenever there isn't a face in frame, our server defaults to monitoring I-Frames only.
- Example Screenshot (from a HIKVision camera)
📌 Visual Main Stream's Resolution should be set to 1920p. For LCD Units, resolution should be set to 1080p
- Example Screenshot (from a HIKVision camera)
📌 Disable OSD settings, to avoid obscuring facial features with solid lines that affect the system's ability to recognise individuals.
- Example Screenshot (from a HIKVision camera)
📌 Timezone & NTP settings. Select the correct time zone and enable NTP settings. Out-of-sync camera timestamps
- Example Screenshot (from a HIKVision camera)
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💡 You should click Test to make sure the camera's clock can be synchronised properly. If the test doesn't pass, please make sure the NTP port is open in your firewall. Feel free to use a custom NTP server here, as long as the test passes in the end.
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Recommended Camera Settings for thermal cameras
Thermal Cameras
Deep Dive into Camera Settings
Resolution / Megapixels
This can work adversely in both ways.
Low res