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1. epx+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-11-08 19:21:52
+1. I have security cameras at home, and my "DVR" is a collection of shell scripts plus a Python script that uses YOLO to find the interesting parts of the footage. The thing works, helps a lot to review daily footage, was damn easy to put to work, and didn't cost me a cent (not even hardware; I run it in a Mini-PC w/o GPU). I knew nothing about ML before writing this script. So yeah, the value is there.
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2. dpcx+Av[view] [source] 2023-11-08 21:41:28
>>epx+(OP)
Any information you'd be willing to share around this would be great! I'm looking to do something similar.
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3. demond+231[view] [source] 2023-11-09 01:06:36
>>epx+(OP)
Funny, I built a security camera setup with PoE CCTV cameras, GStreamer and the NVIDIA CUDA element using a Xavier platform. I tried SSDMobileNet and YOLO and found them to be absolutely horrible.

The camera that was pointing down at an angle was the worst. Both models would only identify a dog and a person correctly about 15% of the time (missing me or my partner as I walked by and waved), with an actual object detection about 80% of the time even when there was nothing in its ground truths in-frame!! (usually as desks, beds or chairs, i don't recall exactly but it was furniture - and it was pointed at my empty back lot). It had just as many shadow/sunspot/tree failures as Motion. The other camera at eye level did a great job with cars, but not so much with people's side profiles, only head-on.

It was laughably bad. And I have no intention of training my own models on my datasets because I don't have time to label. I did this in 2018-2019 so I don't know what the state of the art object detection models are like today, maybe they got their shit together for non-canonical angles.

I eventually switched back to full-time recording on a 2 TB HDD and if I need to scan back i can jog the livestream because it saves weeks of data.

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4. throwa+m51[view] [source] 2023-11-09 01:24:59
>>epx+(OP)
Real quest ion: What "interesting parts of the footage" have you found?
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5. epx+KU2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-11-09 16:05:45
>>dpcx+Av
https://epxx.co/artigos/camera2_en.html
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6. epx+ZU2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-11-09 16:06:26
>>throwa+m51
Parts with a person, or an animal, etc.
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7. epx+lV2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-11-09 16:07:34
>>demond+231
I had more luck with YOLOv8. But I still keep the motion-detected archive (generated by DVR-Scan) for some months, and the raw footage for a couple weeks as well.
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