[tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue? I am getting heaps of errors when it comes to shadows... See below screenshot... the shadow from the big tree basically moves with the wind in front of the main footpath ... it detects the shadow as a person with a very high detection %.... i cant just mask the whole footpath as it'll stop detections of actual people?shadow 1.pngshadow.png
 
So, have a completely non-functioning setup right now. I deleted deepstack container from docker, then ran this:

Code: 
docker run --restart=always -e MODE=Low -e VISION-DETECTION=True -v localstorage:/datastore -p 81:5000 --name deepstack deepquestai/deepstack:gpu-x4-beta

But get these errors:

[13.11.2020, 20:22:59]: ERROR: Can't clean the cameras/history.csv!
[13.11.2020, 21:09:49]: ERROR: Processing the following image 'D:\aiinput\Driveway.20201113_210809565.jpg' failed. Can't reach DeepQuestAI Server at .

So thought I'd try the newer version that @Chris Dodge has on git. Looking at Git, I pulled the zip file which zips to a directory name of "bi-aidetection-master", then followed these instructions below.

Code: 
Backup your current AITOOLS folder.
Download the ZIP, right-click > Properties > UNBLOCK.
Unzip to existing folder, overwriting any files.
Most if not all settings should migrate.

But the above doesn't make much sense to me, as if I simply unzip/extract the contents of "bi-aidetection-master" into the AITools directory, all it does is create a new directory in the AITools directory called "bi-aidetection-master" and extract the files to it. But when I run the executable AITools which is in the AITools directory, of course it doesn't have any relation to the files in the bi-aidetection-master directory. Am I instead supposed to extract the files, then copy and paste them from the bi-aidetection-master directory?

Deepstack is activated when I check localhost:81, and in my 1.67 version of AITools the Deepstack URL is correctly listed as localhost:81. So no idea i) what I'm doing wrong as it relates to the deepstack pull on docker (maybe my docker run command above is incorrect somewhere even though it seems to be running fine?), and ii) how to "update" AITools 1.67 to the newest version.

Help!!
 
pbc said:
Good catch, yes it did. 2 minutes, which is the other thing I'm wondering. Does the cool down mean it won't look at another image for a full 2 minutes? What do other folks use?

Having said that, looking through the folder, it didn't drop a photo of either of the two guys leaving to go back to their vehicles, so BI presumably didn't trigger.
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At 5:17 AI/Deppstack recognized the first person, after this 2 min cooldown means the next recognition will be after 5:19. You are correct cooldown means AItools won't look at another image for 2 min.
 
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pbc said:
So thought I'd try the newer version that @Chris Dodge has on git. Looking at Git, I pulled the zip file which zips to a directory name of "bi-aidetection-master", then followed these instructions below.

Code: 
Backup your current AITOOLS folder.
Download the ZIP, right-click > Properties > UNBLOCK.
Unzip to existing folder, overwriting any files.
Most if not all settings should migrate.

But the above doesn't make much sense to me, as if I simply unzip/extract the contents of "bi-aidetection-master" into the AITools directory, all it does is create a new directory in the AITools directory called "bi-aidetection-master" and extract the files to it. But when I run the executable AITools which is in the AITools directory, of course it doesn't have any relation to the files in the bi-aidetection-master directory. Am I instead supposed to extract the files, then copy and paste them from the bi-aidetection-master directory?
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I think you're downloading the zip of the project (to be opened in Visual Studio for editing/compiling) and not the zip of the compiled application. From Releases · VorlonCD/bi-aidetection ... scroll down to the bottom of the first post where you'll see a link to AITOOL-VORLONCD.zip. Download that file. By default that should unzip into a folder called AITOOL-VORLONCD, not bi-aidetection-master. The AITool.exe in that folder is the program you need to run.
 
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joshwah said:
Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue? I am getting heaps of errors when it comes to shadows... See below screenshot... the shadow from the big tree basically moves with the wind in front of the main footpath ... it detects the shadow as a person with a very high detection %.... i cant just mask the whole footpath as it'll stop detections of actual people?
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You've already asked this question once before. Move the camera to a better position if you don't want to mask it out.
 
Alan_F said:
I think you're downloading the zip of the project (to be opened in Visual Studio for editing/compiling) and not the zip of the compiled application. From Releases · VorlonCD/bi-aidetection ... scroll down to the bottom of the first post where you'll see a link to AITOOL-VORLONCD.zip. Download that file. By default that should unzip into a folder called AITOOL-VORLONCD, not bi-aidetection-master. The AITool.exe in that folder is the program you need to run.
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Ah, thanks, that makes more sense.

The new tool doesn't seem to be recognizing the mask I had for my Driveway camera...how does one select the correct png file that I created for 1.67?
 
joshwah said:
Also, when I have the 'Cancel URL' enabled: what happens is, it deletes the actual alert from the alerts list... this may be great for some....

Ideally, if the memo variable is not empty, I believe it should keep the original alert (not delete) and simply add the text (CANCELLED) or whatever text we would like... is this possible?
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@joshwah Instead of using &flagalert=0 in the cancel URL, I believe you could use &flagalert=-1 to reset the alert state. Then it wouldn’t be removed from the alerts list.

Here are the options from the manual:
x = 0 mark the most recent alert as cancelled.
x = 1 mark the most recent alert as flagged.
x = 2 mark the most recent alert as confirmed.
x = 3 mark the most recent alert as flagged and confirmed.
x = -1 reset the flagged, confirmed, and cancelled states
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Currently, the canceled alerts are just moved to the Canceled Alerts section if you still want to review them there:

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pbc said:
Ah, thanks, that makes more sense.

The new tool doesn't seem to be recognizing the mask I had for my Driveway camera...how does one select the correct png file that I created for 1.67?
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If you have the new version look in the Settings file any masks you had before (if that is what you are asking) should be in there.
 
So obviously not a car. I have noticed since going to AITool" version="2.0.109.7617 I am getting many more incorrect ID's- this one seems to coming up alot- do you think it is just the time of day / shadow play causing it to falsely identify the pothole as a car?
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Looking for some help with an alert issue I'm having. I have multiple cameras setup with cloned cameras working just fine. One camera doesn't seem to work.

1 - Manually triggering Blue Iris works
2 - "Test" button in AI Tools triggers camera in Blue Iris
3 - Motion creates an alert clip on the main camera in Blue Iris as expected
4 - AI Tools correctly identifies the object as Person with 99% confidence for the motion in question

So as far as I can tell:

1 - I walk into the path of the camera which triggers the motion of the main camera
2 - AI Tools checks the JPEG snapshot folder and finds the correct file
3 - AI Tools correctly IDs the targets
4 - Something fails

I thought testing that AI Tools could make an external URL trigger was good enough.. but clearly not. Any ideas on what else could be going wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
balucanb said:
So obviously not a car. I have noticed since going to AITool" version="2.0.109.7617 I am getting many more incorrect ID's- this one seems to coming up alot- do you think it is just the time of day / shadow play causing it to falsely identify the pothole as a car?
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I don't think there is much that can be done about that kind of thing, short of masking that small area I guess. Weeks ago a bird fly by my camera, and AITools (or Deepstack..which does the analysis?) was pretty sure it was a bear. Today I ended up with several giraffe's on my driveway. It's like I live in animal kingdom. Apparently I was a bird.

Might be just me, but the detection algorithms seem to have gotten worse of late?

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Looking for some help with an alert issue I'm having. I have multiple cameras setup with cloned cameras working just fine. One camera doesn't seem to work.

1 - Manually triggering Blue Iris works
2 - "Test" button in AI Tools triggers camera in Blue Iris
3 - Motion creates an alert clip on the main camera in Blue Iris as expected
4 - AI Tools correctly identifies the object as Person with 99% confidence for the motion in question

So as far as I can tell:

1 - I walk into the path of the camera which triggers the motion of the main camera
2 - AI Tools checks the JPEG snapshot folder and finds the correct file
3 - AI Tools correctly IDs the targets
4 - Something fails

I thought testing that AI Tools could make an external URL trigger was good enough.. but clearly not. Any ideas on what else could be going wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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This turns out to be due to the settings not saving as the service was running while.i was modifying and saving

Word to the wise, stop the service (aitools) make edits, restart the service for victory
 
Just installed AITOOL-VORLONCD 2-0-150-7623 what would this be for? I can read but I still don't get it? All my cameras have their own password? Help out the slow guy please..
 

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Just installed AITOOL-VORLONCD 2-0-150-7623 what would this be for? I can read but I still don't get it? All my cameras have their own password? Help out the slow guy please..
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Username and Password for BlueIris Account. You can enter here BlueIris usename and password, and in camera trigger / cancel url use [Username] , [Password] variables instead.
 
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This is very interesting work, however, I can not get it to work correctly. Using the single camera method this is how mine is working with BI, AITOOL, and Deepstack all running:
BI sees motion - the BI view screen switches from substream to main stream on screen (definite improvement in quality and cpu when this happens) and immediately records the video for me (i noticed it does this recording without AITOOL workign correctly and without AITOOL even loaded so I assume this is the way it is supposed to happen with single camera setup)

meanwhile AITOOL is posting this to the log (screenshot shows app starting through the snap being taken, etc) but does not seem to be able to get itself or Deepstack to work with the images properly.
Screenshot - 11_15_2020 , 3_29_36 AM.png

I do not believe that my AITOOL or Deepstack is working correctly any help appreciated it, having fun learning but I am stuck here.
 
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