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BriefCam User Guide

Background Changes Layer
Last Updated: 1 minute read
Version2025r1
LanguageEnglish

To generate a background changes heat map:

  1. Click the Visual Layers control (Visual layers icon.png).

    Visual layer icon on scene.png
  2. Click the Background Changes icon (Background Changes icon.png) to display where changes occurred in the background.

This visual layer can be used to understand which items were interacted with more than others, and which objects haven’t moved at all. This is useful to see places where changes in the scene have taken place – such as static objects that have been moved around (e.g. the popular items on display at a store, and parked cars that have moved).

Note that camera movements and severe lighting changes may also reflect as background changes, although no item interactions occurred.

Background Change in scene.png

The objects circled in red are objects that did not move for a long time. This is a side effect of the background changes feature.