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ONVIF

ONVIF is an industry forum whose mission is to provide and promote standardized interfaces for effective interoperability of IP-based physical security products.

Standardized interfaces are documented as interface specifications available at Network Interface Specifications.

ONVIF scene description​

The ONVIF scene description is an XML based data structure and set of data types that represents elements that are part of a scene.

It includes data structures used to represent object tracking data. Notable parts include,

  • tt:Object used to represent the object state at a particular time.
  • tt:Frame use to represent the state of scene for a particular video frame. It includes an array of tt:Object to represent the state of all tracked objects in a particular video frame.

For more information about ONVIF, see ONVIF Analytics Service Specification