.. _new:

What's New in FindFace Multi 1.2
===================================


.. rubric:: New Features:


* **Video Recorder** (BETA): a brand-new functionality that records, stores, and plays back video data from cameras.

  See:
  
  * :ref:`architecture`
  * :ref:`installer`
  * :ref:`deploy-vms`
  * :ref:`configure-vms`
  * :ref:`Enable Recording for Camera <vms-camera>`
  * :ref:`vms-event`  

* **Card index**: a logical result of the dossier database development. The card index contains cards of two types. A person card aggregates data about a person, such as photos of their face and body. Vehicle-related data, such as photos and license plate numbers, are stored in car cards.

  See :ref:`cards`.

* **Relations**: enrich your card index and analytics capacity by drawing relations between cards of the same type or different types.

  See :ref:`relations`.

* **Special vehicles**: a new AI-based feature that allows you to automatically recognize police, ambulance, rescue service, and taxi vehicles.

  See :ref:`cars`.

* **Counters**: a possibility of counting cars in addition to faces and bodies.

  See :ref:`counters`.

* **Clusters**: a completely revised functionality of what was formerly known as Persons. Includes automatic clustering of objects of the same origin (face/body images belonging to the same person, images of the same car), end-to-end integration with the card index, and many other features.

  See :ref:`clusters`.

* **Episodes**: a major enhancement that divides episodes into two types: people and cars. 

  See :ref:`episodes`.

* **Webhooks**: a possibility of setting webhooks for areas and new episode types. 

  See :ref:`webhooks`.

* **Reports**: a possibility of building reports on areas, area activations, and activation records.

  See :ref:`reports`.

* **Reports**: new work time reports with a possibility of export to Excel. Allow you to regard the exact moments of staff entering and exiting an enterprise or a designated area and calculate the total time spent at it. Can be built on the :guilabel:`Events` and :guilabel:`Areas` tabs. 

  See :ref:`reports`.


.. rubric:: Enhanced Algorithms, UI, UX:

* :ref:`Distance measurement between bodies <bodies>`.
* :ref:`Interaction analysis <interaction-analysis>`.
* :ref:`Events <events>`.
* :ref:`Areas <areas>`.
* Expanded usage of progress bars throughout the web interface.
* :ref:`Webhooks <webhooks>`.
   

.. rubric:: Technical Changes:

* :ref:`Backup and recovery functionality <backup-restore>`.
* :ref:`Instance removal script <remove-instance>`.
* To save disc space, the system now saves normalized images to JPEG with the 95% quality instead of PNG.
* :ref:`Video processing <job>`: statistics is now partitioned by object type. 
* :ref:`Cleanup utility <event-cleaner>`: new entities removal support.
* :ref:`Custom meta-data in Tarantool <custom-metadata>`.
* :ref:`Cluster migration <migrate>` to a different neural network.

.. rubric:: Renamed:

* ``dossier`` → ``card``.
* :guilabel:`Relations` → :guilabel:`Interaction Analysis`.
* :guilabel:`Persons` → :guilabel:`Clusters`.


.. rubric:: Fresh Neural Networks:

* Special vehicles recognition: a brand-new neural network ``carattr.special_types.v0`` to recognize police cars, ambulance, rescue service, and taxi.
* Liveness recognition: brand-new neural networks ``liveness.pacs.v0`` (embedded into ``findface-video-worker``) and ``liveness.colombo`` (``findface-liveness-api``) with improved characteristics.
* Car license plate normalizer: ``anaferon.v3`` with improved characteristics.
* Car license plate recognition: a new version ``license_plate.v4`` that supports license plates of Uzbekistan, Brazil, and India in addition to the UAE, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, South Africa, Vietnam, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan.



.. rubric:: Coming Soon:

* **Distributed card index**: a possibility of distributing a card index among several hosts with synchronization and replication.
* **Flexible structure of the feature vector database**: a possibility of creating different meta-fields in different Tarantool galleries.

  .. note:: This functionality is already available in the FindFace Core. If you need this functionality now, contact our support team (support@ntechlab.com).