US 12755549 B2 / Oct 6, 2026

Method and system for testing video analytics of a video surveillance system

Simulated objects are generated for display over a video stream by receiving a first user input that identifies one or more user identified regions relative to an image, tagging each of the one or more user identified regions with a corresponding region tag, receiving a second user input that is used to identify one or more simulation parameters, and identifying one or more simulation parameters based at least in part on the second user input. The method includes determining a plurality of characteristics of the simulated objects based on the simulation parameters, user identified regions and region tags. The simulated objects are superimposed on the video stream to create an augmented video stream and the augmented video stream is processed using one or more video analytics algorithms to test the effectiveness of each of the one or more video analytics algorithms.