Object Detection and Tracking
Item detection and tracking powered by deep learning for accurate real-time monitoring
Visual Tracking Solutions
Items may be scanned at various points in a facility, but maintaining continuous visibility of their location and status is crucial for efficient operations. Our visual tracking solutions leverage advanced computer vision techniques to provide accurate and reliable tracking of items throughout your facility.
Tracking solutions often struggle in complex environments, leading to missed detections and inaccurate tracking data. We understand the challenges faced in real-world scenarios, such as occlusions, varying lighting conditions, and high object density.
We offer custom tracking solutions designed to overcome these obstacles and deliver reliable performance. Our models are trained to detect your target objects accurately, even in challenging conditions.
Multi-camera tracking provides comprehensive coverage and enhanced accuracy, ensuring that your items are consistently tracked throughout their journey.
Inventory Tracking and Event Detection
When items are scanned by a camera, they can be reidentified in secondary cameras that have a wider field of view. This enables the tracking of items as they move through a facility. Delivery, loading, and storage events can be monitored visually, and these events are logged automatically to the cloud for later review as needed. The system can be configured to track specific item types throughout their journey within a facility, providing real-time visibility into their status and location. Equipment can be tracked to more easily locate tools and machinery within a facility, reducing idle time and improving operational efficiency.
In the videos shown below, cameras monitor the movement of equipment and scanned pallets through a passageway. allowing for complete coverage of the area with minimal camera resources. A header provides information about the event such as the items being tracked, date, time, origin, and destination. The origin and destination of each item is logged automatically as they pass through the monitored passageway. These event clips are tagged to the target items, allowing for easy access to video evidence of their handling history. Storage and bandwidth costs are minimized by using low framerates, and only storing videos or images when relevant events occur.
Lines are drawn here to demonstrate the continuous tracking of the target pallet through the video. The different items and equipment are also indicated here with bounding boxes for illustrative purposes.
Tracking solutions are customized to meet your specific needs:
- Custom Targets: Detection models are trained on your target classes.
- Multi-Cam Tracking: Re-identification of tracked objects between cameras
- Equipment Tracking: Items can be mapped to locations within the facility
- Dwell Times: Quickly access the time objects have been at their current locations
- FIFO Management: Items can be prioritized for handling on first-come basis
- Space Usage: Calculate space usage of buffer zones and overflow areas
- Video Receipts: Video clips of historical movements for equipment and inventory
- SLA Alerts: Notifications when items are at risk of breaking their cross-dock requirements
- Item Counting: Items are detected individually to enable accurate counting
Note: A framerate of 2FPS is used to minimize data storage and bandwidth requirements.
Importance of Visual Tracking
Many diverse industries would benefit greatly from accurate and reliable visual tracking solutions, including:
Warehousing & Distribution Centers
Chain of Custody: Ensuring accurate tracking of inventory as it moves through different stages of storage and distribution to prevent loss and misplacement.
Cross-Dock Operations: Alert managers to items that have been idle the longest in buffer zones, prioritizing items at-risk of breaking SLAs and improving workforce efficiency.
Damaged Goods Dispute Resolution: To reduce claims on damaged items, a video log would verify if they were damaged upon arrival or in good condition when they were shipped out.
Manufacturing & Production
Bottleneck Detection: Track the movement of raw materials between workstations and identify which station is the "slowest".
Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Prevention: Detect objects that shouldn't be there (e.g., a tool left inside a large crate before it is sealed) and alert staff to remove it before it causes damage.
QA/Recall Management: If a specific batch of parts is found to be defective later, it can be traced to the assembly line path it took and identify if it interacted with other batches.
Cold Chain & Food Logistics
Dwell Time Alerts: Track the movement of frozen goods and trigger an alert if they sit in an area with ambient temperature longer than an allowed period of time.
Contamination Prevention: Prevent cross-contamination by ensuring that allergen-containing products are not stored or transported alongside allergen-free items.
Retail Back-of-House
Shrinkage (Theft) Detection: Track high-value electronics from the delivery truck to the secure cage, and alert if the items disappear in a blind spot or near an emergency exit.
Vendor Compliance: Verify that vendors are delivering exactly what they invoiced by counting the boxes as they are unloaded.
Air Cargo & Baggage Handling
Lost Luggage Tracking: Track the movement of scanned luggage for easier location and retrieval when bags are misplaced or lost.
"Left Behind" Detection: Alert ground crews immediately if a piece of luggage or cargo falls off a tug/dolly between the terminal and the airplane.
Security Perimeter Breaches: Track objects or people moving from public to secure zones without authorization.
What We Offer
Scan Tracking
We track items that have been scanned, ensuring accurate association between scanned codes and their corresponding objects.
Custom Detection Models
We can track any object of interest, whether it's packages, pallets, or specialized containers, tailored to your operational needs.
Multi-camera Re-identification
We track items across multiple camera views to ensure continuous visibility throughout your facility.
Event Logging
We can isolate specific events, such as item movement or location changes, and provide video clips for review.
3D Spatial Localization
By utilizing RGB-D camera data, we can determine the precise 3D location of items within your environment.
Any and All Challenges
We specialize in solving the toughest computer vision challenges. If your application has unique obstacles, we're ready to tackle them.