Problem with Metadata and Search

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Hello there,

We have noticed that search results return several same video clips if metadata search criteria are meet more than once.

For example, if a person and a dog enter camera field of view. Some AI engine will insert metadata about a person being detected and metadata about animal being detected.

Then, when search for people and animal metadata is activated, Search will return two videos. One because it has detected a person and another (the same video) because it has detected an animal.

This is starting to be problematic when large numbers of object are detected, 30 cars in a parking lot will return 30 videos that are all the same.

In image below we there are 4 videos with the same length and the same start and stop times.

Is there a way around this?

I would like metadata search to return ONE video and more details about the metadata like the example in the image. One video and a metadata tag displaying the metadata attached to this video. In this case new vehicle have entered camera field of view.

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A developer colleague has helped me with this reply..

The Smart Client does combine results, but only results coming from multiple plugin instances.

From your example it appears you are getting all the results from the same custom plugin “3VisionD”. Smart Client does not have the capability for merging multiple results coming from the same search plugin, as it does not know the desired rules or have the information to do so. In this case the custom plugin implementation would need to merge the results into one before sending them to the Smart Client.