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Multi-object tracking

Multi-object tracking is the computer vision process that detects every person, vehicle or object in a camera view and follows each one from frame to frame as the same subject. It is what lets a system say that a person crossed a line, stayed in a zone or passed through a door, rather than that pixels changed.

A tracker keeps an identity for each subject through brief occlusions and re-entries, so a person who walks behind a pillar comes out as the same track. Every rule on the camera, line, zone, dwell time or count, is evaluated against those tracks.

The identity is a track number, not a person's identity. Tracking does not recognize faces; it follows shapes and motion, which is why detections built on it can run without identifying anyone.

On Camzify multi-object tracking underlies every detection and the patrol round, and pairs with AI attribute extraction to attach a plain description such as clothing color to a track when that feature is enabled.

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No. It follows a subject as a track within a camera view; it does not identify who the person is, and Camzify does no facial recognition.

Because a rule evaluated on tracks fires only for a recognized subject. Rain, shadows and headlights produce no track and therefore no alert.

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