# How-to Guides

This section collects the guides for the Suspicious Activity Detection application.

- [Scenescape Setup](./how-to-guides/scenescape-setup.md) – How Scenescape is configured, initialized, and managed within the application stack.
- [Pattern Authoring Guide](./how-to-guides/pattern-authoring-guide.md) – How to define custom pose-based activity patterns in `patterns.yaml` without code changes.
- [Benchmarking and Stream Density](./how-to-guides/benchmarking.md) – How to measure end-to-end latency and determine maximum stream density for your hardware.
- [VLM Recall Search](./how-to-guides/vlm-recall-search.md) – How natural-language recall over historical footage works, and how to enable, configure, and search it.


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Setup Scenescape <./how-to-guides/scenescape-setup.md>
./how-to-guides/pattern-authoring-guide.md
Benchmarking <./how-to-guides/benchmarking.md>
VLM Recall Search <./how-to-guides/vlm-recall-search.md>

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