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Entity Recognition

ArgusAI can recognize and track recurring visitors, vehicles, and packages.

What Are Entities?​

Entities are recognized subjects that appear across multiple events:

  • People: Family members, regular visitors, delivery personnel
  • Vehicles: Your car, neighbor's car, delivery trucks
  • Packages: Tracked deliveries

How It Works​

  1. AI analyzes event and extracts subject details
  2. System matches against existing entities
  3. New entities are created for unknown subjects
  4. Events are linked to their entities

Vehicle Extraction​

Vehicles are identified by:

  • Color: white, black, silver, red, blue, etc.
  • Make: Toyota, Ford, Tesla, etc.
  • Model: Camry, F-150, Model 3, etc.

Example: "white Toyota Camry" creates a unique entity.

Managing Entities​

Viewing Entities​

Navigate to Entities page to see all recognized entities:

  • Filter by type (person, vehicle)
  • View event history per entity
  • See first/last seen timestamps

Entity Details​

Click an entity to view:

  • All linked events with thumbnails
  • Entity attributes (color, make, model for vehicles)
  • Timeline of appearances

Correcting Assignments​

Unlinking Events​

If an event is incorrectly assigned:

  1. Open the entity detail page
  2. Find the incorrect event
  3. Click Remove to unlink it

Assigning Events​

To add an unlinked event to an entity:

  1. Open the event card
  2. Click Add to Entity
  3. Search for the correct entity
  4. Confirm assignment

Merging Entities​

If the same subject has multiple entities:

  1. Go to Entities page
  2. Select both entities (checkbox)
  3. Click Merge
  4. Choose which entity to keep
  5. Confirm merge

Learning from Corrections​

ArgusAI stores manual corrections to improve future matching:

  • Unlinks teach what doesn't match
  • Assigns teach what does match
  • Merges consolidate duplicates

This data helps refine entity detection over time.

Named Entity Alerts​

Create alerts for specific entities:

  1. Go to entity detail page
  2. Click Create Alert Rule
  3. Configure notification settings
  4. Save the rule

Now you'll be notified when that specific entity is detected.