ColorVu 3.0
AI-Powered Night Vision Hits New Heights
Overview
Hikvision is committed to innovating technology to build a safer and smarter future. From exploration in the dark to 24/7 color imaging, from 2 MP to 4K, Hikvision makes breakthroughs in clarity and the possibilities of color imaging. Now, Hikvision ColorVu is entering a new era— ColorVu 3.0, achieving progress in dynamic video effects, static image color, and scene adaption.
Hikvision is committed to innovating technology to build a safer and smarter future. From exploration in the dark to 24/7 color imaging, from 2 MP to 4K, Hikvision makes breakthroughs in clarity and the possibilities of color imaging. Now, Hikvision ColorVu is entering a new era— ColorVu 3.0, achieving progress in dynamic video effects, static image color, and scene adaption.
ColorVu 3.0 Technology
Cutting-edge Hardware:
F1.0 super large aperture
Advanced sensor
Super-high Reliability:
Active alignment technology guarantees the focusing performance
Self-developed
Brightness Enhancement
ColorVu 3.0 equips HikAI-ISP that brings advanced AI noise reduction to boost image quality. By skillfully visual data, ColorVu 3.0 effectively reduces unwanted noise while enhancing overall brightness, resulting in clearer and more detailed images. The intelligent algorithms not only increase visibility but also preserve the richness of colors, ensuring that fine details are captured even in challenging lighting environments.
Motion Blur Reduction
ColorVu 3.0 excels in significantly reducing image motion blur, particularly during nighttime conditions. Utilizing HikAI-ISP, it effectively stabilizes and clarifies moving objects, ensuring that details remain sharp and distinct even in low-light environments. The reduction in motion blur allows for more accurate and reliable video, and performs image restoration with high precision, making every detail better.
ColorVu 3.0 Technology
Cutting-edge Hardware:
F1.0 super large aperture
Advanced sensor
Super-high Reliability:
Active alignment technology guarantees the focusing performance
Self-developed
Brightness Enhancement
ColorVu 3.0 equips HikAI-ISP that brings advanced AI noise reduction to boost image quality. By skillfully visual data, ColorVu 3.0 effectively reduces unwanted noise while enhancing overall brightness, resulting in clearer and more detailed images. The intelligent algorithms not only increase visibility but also preserve the richness of colors, ensuring that fine details are captured even in challenging lighting environments.
Motion Blur Reduction
ColorVu 3.0 excels in significantly reducing image motion blur, particularly during nighttime conditions. Utilizing HikAI-ISP, it effectively stabilizes and clarifies moving objects, ensuring that details remain sharp and distinct even in low-light environments. The reduction in motion blur allows for more accurate and reliable video, and performs image restoration with high precision, making every detail better.
AI WDR
The dynamic range of AI WDR has been greatly improved. This means that both the bright and dark areas of an image can be blended naturally. Bright areas are not overexposed, while details in dark areas will not lost. What's more, the technique further enhances partial details.
The AI WDR shows its intelligent scenario adaptability. This technology lets the device determine whether to turn on WDR according to the brightness of the environment, without the need for manual adjustments.
AI WDR
The dynamic range of AI WDR has been greatly improved. This means that both the bright and dark areas of an image can be blended naturally. Bright areas are not overexposed, while details in dark areas will not lost. What's more, the technique further enhances partial details.
The AI WDR shows its intelligent scenario adaptability. This technology lets the device determine whether to turn on WDR according to the brightness of the environment, without the need for manual adjustments.
Super Confocal Technology
Hikvision's Super Confocal Technology overcomes focusing challenges and ensures sharply focused imaging with the same set of lenses, either with visible light or infrared light. Powered by super confocal technology, the smart hybrid light features clearer imaging and helps render color, black & white, or motion-triggered color imaging to suit virtually any need in any setting.
3D LUT Color Correction
ColorVu 3.0 uses advanced 3D LUT color correction technology. This technology achieves accurate color calibration and delicate color matching. It not only enhances brightness but, more importantly, restores the true color of things, making every scene in the darkness of the night as brilliant as the daytime.
3D LUT Color Correction
ColorVu 3.0 uses advanced 3D LUT color correction technology. This technology achieves accurate color calibration and delicate color matching. It not only enhances brightness but, more importantly, restores the true color of things, making every scene in the darkness of the night as brilliant as the daytime.
Where can I use ColorVu?
When combining with other Hikvision's advanced technologies, ColorVu drives innovation to amazing levels, enabling ever more powerful capabilities to tackle common security concerns in residential areas, office buildings, parking lots, and many more.

Combining ColorVu technology with Live Guard, cameras are able to deter trespassers with visual and auditory warnings while sending notifications to users remotely. It provides proactive protection day and night where incidents or accidents occur and illuminate dark areas to improve safety for tenants and visitors.

Enjoy high quality imaging with "ColorVu+ 4K" enabled cameras which capture richer, more colorful details. Users can monitor entrances and exits as well as dimly-lit interior and exterior areas where theft or other crimes occur – dark hallways, dumpster areas, and loading docks.

Hikvision's Varifocal Cameras with ColorVu guarantee image brightness while the camera zooms in or out. And there is no need for additional lighting to capture high-quality, full-color images. All these features reduce costs and ensure detailed imagery – such as the color of a person's clothing or the color of a car – and everything is recorded for forensic review when necessary.

Hikvision's panoramic cameras with ColorVu deliver brilliant and seamless panoramas with more lively details. Strategically placed these cameras in wide areas such as walkways, play areas, and exercise areas helps improve situational awareness and reduces the amount of cameras required for comprehensive monitoring, aiding cost efficiency.
Which products come equipped with ColorVu?
Hikvision builds its flagship technology, ColorVu, into the majority of its product lines, from entry-level to advanced models. Click a product category below to find out more.

Pro Series with ColorVu 3.0
With a large F1.0 aperture and advanced sensor, Hikvision Pro series cameras with ColorVu produce colorful and sharp videos with clear details in most scenarios. For zero-light environments, the camera is equipped with white light to compensate and ensure colorful videos.

Value Series with ColorVu 3.0
Hikvision's ExpressIP Network Cameras feature ColorVu 3.0 and Motion Detection 3.0 technologies, which present vivid and clear full-color images and detect persons and vehicles with high precision.

Turbo HD Cameras with ColorVu
With the new ColorVu Technology, Turbo HD cameras with ColorVu render clear images at 0.0005 lux, providing critical monitoring in ultra low-light scenarios. With this technology, cameras can now provide round-the-clock vivid color imaging.