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Detection · Security & Surveillance

Intrusion detection: Datasets & Models

A computer vision workflow that monitors camera feeds to detect people, vehicles, or objects entering restricted or off-limits areas. It flags unauthorized presence in real time so security teams can respond before an incident escalates.

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Intrusion detection

This intrusion detection workflow applies object detection to camera feeds, identifying people, vehicles, and other objects that enter restricted or off-limits zones such as perimeters, fence lines, and loading docks. It accepts RGB video frames or still images from fixed CCTV, IP cameras, or edge devices and returns bounding boxes with class labels for each detected object.

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Why automate intrusion detection

Manual monitoring of dozens of security camera feeds is tedious, error-prone, and expensive to staff around the clock, and human attention degrades quickly during long, uneventful shifts. Automating intrusion detection with computer vision means every frame is analyzed consistently, alerts fire the moment an unauthorized person or vehicle enters a protected area, and operators only review flagged events instead of hours of empty footage. For security and surveillance teams, that translates to faster response times, fewer missed breaches, and a searchable record of who or what entered a zone and when.

Key benefits

Because the model runs on the RTSP and IP camera infrastructure you already have, there is no need to rip and replace existing hardware to add automated perimeter monitoring. RF-DETR delivers reliable detection across day, night, and crowded scenes, and the same pipeline scales from a single gate to hundreds of cameras across multiple sites. Reduced false alarms and instant zone-based alerts let a lean security team cover far more ground than manual watch-standing allows.

How to use it

  1. Upload an image: Drop any photo into the widget above to try intrusion detection for free, right on this page.
  2. Preview instant results: The model detects person, vehicle, backpack, ladder, fence within seconds and returns an annotated image with structured predictions, so you can immediately see how well it works. Adjust the detection classes and re-run until the results fit your scenario.
  3. Like what you see?: With a free Roboflow account, you can deploy this workflow with the Serverless Cloud API, customize it in your workspace, or train RF-DETR on your own images for production accuracy.
  4. Get started for free: No code or training data required to begin: upload, review the results, and make it part of your stack in a single click.
Recommended model

Recommended model for intrusion detection

RF-DETR is state of the art for real-time object detection, instance segmentation, and keypoint detection, with higher accuracy and lower latency than comparable models, and it's Apache 2.0 licensed. When you're ready to build a production model for intrusion detection, fine-tune it on your own labeled images, then deploy to a Serverless Cloud API endpoint.

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