The goal of this testing is to document the configuration and user experience of the ProHawk functionality from within the Milestone XProtect Smart Client.
ProHawk is a certified Milestone Solution Partner working to deliver the clearest video possible. The ProHawk Smart Client plug-in can work in tandem with Milestone XProtect as an integrated component to improve video quality and video analytics performance.
ProHawk functionally can either accessed using:
- The ProHawk Vision Server native UI.
- The integrated VMS plug-in for the Milestone XProtect Smart Client.
ProHawk Vision Server UI
The ProHawk Vision server can open streams from many sources. The most common is to open a stream from a camera and make this available to a VMS after restoration.
Users have access to several ProHawk functions such as video restoration options, presented in aside by side pre and postprocessing view. Different combinations of filters can be tested to get the optimal video restoration settings.
ProHawk Milestone XProtect Smart Client UI
The ProHawk Milestone XProtect Smart Client plug-in enables:
- Client-side control of ProHawk functionality.
- Users to adjust CV restoration settings in real-time, zoom in and pan on computer vision restored video.
- Client-side restoration of historic video during playback.
ProHawk Milestone XProtect Smart Client plug-in Installation
The ProHawk Smart Client Plugin is installed on the same VM as the Milestone XProtect Smart Client. It comes a stand-alone installation executable, with licensing requirements.
It is necessary to allocate additional compute and GPU resources to the Milestone XProtect Smart Client so that it can restore video streams with ProHawk.
- CPU
- 8
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GPU
- 1/4 of A16 GPU (equivalent to A2)
This base VM supported a total of 4 ProHawk streams in playback mode.