Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

[wittaj]

Maybe your neighbor will learn.

Unless it is one of the oddball proprietary Lorex units, Andy's cams pull right into Lorex.

 

[TheWaterbug]

Maybe your neighbor will learn.

Unless it is one of the oddball proprietary Lorex units, Andy's cams pull right into Lorex.

Excellent. I will hit my neighbors with a stick until they buy some frickin' AndyCams.

 

[TheWaterbug]

My neighbor in 104 isn't interested in hosting cameras. He's just got too much going on in running his business. I'm disappointed, but I still have a shot at talking to 105, who has just as good a view of the northeast driveway.

301 is very interested in putting up a camera, and they have the perfect angle for the south driveway.

For the northwest driveway, how about 203 or 204? The tenant in 301 is currently also occupying 203, but might be moving to 204 because he needs the space, but they basically have the same angle to the NW driveway, and that's about 115' as I've drawn the arrow, to where a car would be fully into the lot:

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Good news! After I got all the wireless bridges configured and tested in my kitchen, I rigged everything up with a tripod, jumpstarter, and an inverter for a real-world test in front of 301:



The tenant in 301 came out, and we talked, and he's actually negotiating with the landlord to move his warehouse needs from 203 to 302 (not marked, but just to the right of 301), and he's 100% on-board with me using his AC power and mounting my bridge and camera from the awning of 302 to point directly at the southern driveway off of Western. We should get the go-ahead next week.

In even better news, I was running the same test at ground level in front of 104/105:



and got the go-ahead to mount that camera from the balcony! Here's the view from the 104/105 shared balcony to the northern driveway in the daytime:



and my first plate captures at night (yes, I changed the camera name overlay). This is my car, so no concerns about privacy. Plates leaving are good at 1/30,000 exposure :



and plates entering at an artificially sharp angle (e.g. me, trying to avoid the LPR camera) are just makeable. I'm currently focused too close, so I need to fiddle with that tomorrow. I have a dummy plate for testing, too:



Regarding the 223rd St. driveway, since I won't be able to mount a camera at 203/204, I also did some testing from the back end of my own unit #107:



facing North, about 230'



I'm parked just the left of the driveway, but at this distance the slight difference in angle won't matter. Daytime plates should be good:



and I'll have to see about nighttime plates. I don't know if the IR illuminator will throw that far. But I've got a 3rd AndyCam on order to see if I can make this work. I already have a $50 Amcrest eyeball up on that exterior wall, so I can run a POE splitter and power a 2nd camera, and point that eyeball more towards the driveway as my overview camera.

 

[Madflamethrower]

Excellent tutorial with specific camera ID to read plates at a distance. For that alone I thank you as it will aid me in setting up what I hope to achieve.

 

[looney2ns]

Excellent tutorial with specific camera ID to read plates at a distance. For that alone I thank you as it will aid me in setting up what I hope to achieve.

Have you read the LPR thread? There's gold in that thread.

 

[Flintstone61]

Yeah, I need to completely re-do the cameras. The problem is that I need a hammer drill (and the landlord's permission) to get through 8" of concrete wall if I want to move them. So it's not so simple.

Maybe you could leave the cabling holes you have already but run Raceway down the side of the wall to lower the cams?
20V hammer drills: i have an old $149 Rockwell cordless drill, it doesn't make decent progress on speed 1, But the thing rips thru 12" block wall pretty fast on speed 2.
you can get a hammer drill for $99 or less now i think. make tiny camera mount holes with like , 3/16 bit. can be filled it easily later if needed.

 

[Madflamethrower]

Have you read the LPR thread? There's gold in that thread.

Yes, but what got my attention here and I should have clarified, was the 150' distance and the suggestion of exposure correction. And with wittaj's and bigredfish's usual comments, it helped understand what it took to get what the OP needed. I can appreciate what each different camera is capable of.

No doubt there is s steep learning curve with this level of cameras, but I am determined.

 

[TheWaterbug]

and plates entering at an artificially sharp angle (e.g. me, trying to avoid the LPR camera) are just makeable. I'm currently focused too close, so I need to fiddle with that tomorrow. I have a dummy plate for testing, too:

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That also looks weird because my front plates were all bent up. Here's my first natural night-time entry, at a normal angle:


Maybe I have the focus point correct, where the cars need to complete their turn before running into the curb that runs parallel to the driveway. If I focus further out, where the driveway meets the street, I might get only the sideways view.

 

[TheWaterbug]

Maybe you could leave the cabling holes you have already but run Raceway down the side of the wall to lower the cams?

Possible, but the cameras need to be high enough that vagrants can't reach them by standing on the bollards or the electrical panel :



They haven't brought a ladder. Yet.

 

[TheWaterbug]

It's up:



Here's my car, after making a left turn into the lot from 223rd St (scaled down):



and a 100% crop of my car:



Here's someone leaving:



I can actually zoom in even further, but I don't think I need to, and I would lose part of the driveway anyway (scaled down):



I should be able to catch most plates, no? Well, as long as the delivery trucks aren't in the way :

 

[bigredfish]

Lookin Good!

 

[TheWaterbug]

And I'm catching plates!!