Can I Train CP.AI to Recognize Certain Cars?

May 6, 2025
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I am using CP.AI to successfully recognize and alert cars.. people.. delivery trucks, etc, it integrates with BI and then Pushover extremely nicely.

I'm wondering if I have more capability to do the following, based on training from existing recorded footage

1) train to certain cars- as in, ignore my cars parked in the driveway

2) train to parked cars- as in, recognize various cars parked such as parents cars, mother in law, etc

3) train to other cars, as in, a suspicious car suspected of stealing things from yards in the neighborhood

I am running Object Detection (YOLOv5 6.2)
 
It might be easier to set up an LPR camera and detect the desired plates rather than trying to just detect the make/model of car. First, you'd need a good amount of training data so that it could discern each specific car without a lot of false negatives for the wrong make/model, but even then it would be pretty hard for it to filter out cars that are the same make/model as the target cars. And if there was a suspicious car in the neighborhood, you'd have to retrain the model on images of that specific car which would be hard to obtain.

If you were detecting plates from an LPR camera, you could create alert actions for specific plates.
 
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