Blue Iris and DeepStack ALPR

MikeLud1 said:
Below are all my settings for my ALPR (cropped image camera). For the both record folders I use &CAM\%Y%m%d\&CAM.%Y%m%d_%H%M%S

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Bingo...that was it. Didn't realize I had to copy and paste "&CAM\%Y%m%d\&CAM.%Y%m%d_%H%M%S" into every profile (some were syncing with other cameras).

Voila.. Now to figure out focus/zoom. Wonder if my camera has moved a bit with wind/etc as it used to be perfect, though trying to capture two lanes is never easy.

Huge thanks for sticking with me through out all my faux pas!

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Next up is tweaking this?

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Strange, back to the no char?

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MikeLud1 said:
The plate needs have about 100 pixels for the OCR to work, can you zoom in some. Can you attached a cropped image from the ALPR folder

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Thanks, unfortunately if I zoom in more I lose one of the two sides which is the issue (and then would have to try and capture plates from further back which presumably defeats the pupose?

E.g., below is the full view. I would capture the van a bit earlier in the shot and then the jeep a bit later in the shot in how I've set up the zones.

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Is the 100 pixel thing a limit within Deepstack? I.e., when I was using OpenALPR ages ago it was able to capture the plates, but I guess using an different API?
 
Not sure what setting I changed, but seem to be getting fewer confirmed plates, and also even when I get a confirmed plate it is not giving me the usual vehicle flag in the timeline?

Maybe something different between different schedules.

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Has anyone come across digital license plates?



I wonder if there will be new challenges getting OCR to work against one of these plates at night.
 
nhs128 said:
Forgive the complete noobiness here... but is DeepStack something I need to install apart from DeepStackALPR? When I run through the config and click the Start Now button in the AI tab of Settings, I just get an error that says 'Could not start (258), check path (C:\DeepStack).
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DeepStackALPR does need DeepStack installed for it to work.

I created a ALPR module for CodeProject.AI and should be in the upcoming release, so I would recommended waiting for the release which should be any day now.
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MikeLud1 said:
DeepStackALPR does need DeepStack installed for it to work.

I created a ALPR module for CodeProject.AI and should be in the upcoming release, so I would recommended waiting for the release which should be any day now.
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Hi, is there a release we can take a look at? Really excited to see if I can get this to work.
 
MikeLud1 said:
The release should be sometime this month
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Thanks... just been following the instructions and think am close to getting it working, but having a problem with the paths.

Error is :

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'D:\\NEW\\LPR\\ALPR.20230103_184643622.jpg\\ALPR.20230103_183149.550.17-0.txt'

Not sure I have the paths setup correctly... Any idea why it's forming the path like that?

Thanks
 
sp3ctre said:
Thanks... just been following the instructions and think am close to getting it working, but having a problem with the paths.

Error is :

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'D:\\NEW\\LPR\\ALPR.20230103_184643622.jpg\\ALPR.20230103_183149.550.17-0.txt'

Not sure I have the paths setup correctly... Any idea why it's forming the path like that?

Thanks
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It might be a setting in DS_ALPR_config.ini file, can you post your settings
 
MikeLud1 said:
It might be a setting in DS_ALPR_config.ini file, can you post your settings
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Thanks.. I have just figured it out, it was the path having a * in it. I have it all working better now, apart from the accuracy seems a bit low. I have attached an example but this is what is in the log file:

01/04/2023 11:21:22 Plate: YHSRND 73% CropTime: 31.2 ms OCRTime: 0.0 ms AlertTime: 15.6 ms TotalTime: 46.9 ms File:
 

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I was changing settings and it stopped working again... I have got it to work by using the following alerts... but I think I should only be using one of them, right? I also seem to be getting lots of instances where the ALPR image doesn't update and the OCR happens on the previous vehicle.


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ALPR Cam (cropped)
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sp3ctre said:
I was changing settings and it stopped working again... I have got it to work by using the following alerts... but I think I should only be using one of them, right? I also seem to be getting lots of instances where the ALPR image doesn't update and the OCR happens on the previous vehicle.


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I have not been using DeepStackALPR while I was making a new ALPR for CodeProject.AI. Yesterday I enabled it to check the issues you are having and found that I also had some issues, Blue Iris must have made some changes that are causing the issues.
I recommend that you wait till the next release of CodeProject.AI which should be released sometime this month.
 
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MikeLud1 said:
I have not been using DeepStackALPR while I was making a new ALPR for CodeProject.AI. Yesterday I enabled it to check the issues you are having and found that I also had some issues, Blue Iris must have made some changes that are causing the issues.
I recommend that you wait till the next release of CodeProject.AI which should be released sometime this month.
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Thanks for the feedback, happy to wait. It seems like some of the inaccuracy is due to it not being trained with UK plates. Do you have any instructions on how to re-train it once I have a large collection of plates?

Thanks again
 
sp3ctre said:
Thanks for the feedback, happy to wait. It seems like some of the inaccuracy is due to it not being trained with UK plates. Do you have any instructions on how to re-train it once I have a large collection of plates?

Thanks again
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The new CodeProject.AI ALPR has a better OCR so no re-training of the model will be needed.

If you still what to learn how to train a DeepStack model see the below link.
DeepStack Model Training

DeepStack is using an older version of YOLOv5, below is how to train a model using the current version of YOLOv5.
YOLOv5 Model Training

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Hi again, just looking at Codeproject.ai and it looks great (I should have looked closer before jumping into Deepstack). With plate reading it should work well to replace what I use now. Quick question though, does it have to rely on BI grabbing static images or can you set it up to analyse the live stream and grab plates that way?
 
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