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I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

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Re: I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

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Post by speedgoose »

rejschaap wrote: post #35
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To clarify, I mean indirectly the power consumption. I guess this will become an important point of discussion soon-ish, as we get more and more electric cars and ML stuff in them. My view is, if your car uses electrons, and some of those are for compute, and you just offload the compute to the cloud, you haven't actually reduced the total electricity consumption. Similarly here, the total "footprint" of the car is i…

Whether the car uses electrons or fossil fuels is pretty irrelevant, right?

I think the comparison with an electric car is to illustrate that this cloud solution is a waste of energy.

Re: I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

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Post by netsharc »

CheesecakeFred wrote: post #46
simon_000666 wrote: post #44

Ok, I have a use case for this. If you could figure out how to get it off the cloud and low power, it would be awesome to have one of these on the gates to my house, so when I drive up the plates are automatically recognized and the gates open to my car.

I think the problem here is pretty obvious.

I wonder if the ML would also recognise hand-drawn licence plates?

https://papersplease.fandom.com/wiki/Fake_passport

Re: I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

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Post by pedro596 »

This is nice from an academical standpoint since it can scale to track the cars, infer speed of the cars, track lanes, signs maybe experiment and try to do some predictions(...) But, if the target is just to find plates and recognize the letters I've seen this being done with only a RPI. (I am actually considering to do it just for fun :))

Re: I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

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Post by irl_ »

simon_000666 wrote: post #44

Ok, I have a use case for this. If you could figure out how to get it off the cloud and low power, it would be awesome to have one of these on the gates to my house, so when I drive up the plates are automatically recognized and the gates open to my car.

The best password is the one written in plaintext on the outside of your car.

Re: I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

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Post by irl_ »

netsharc wrote: post #52
CheesecakeFred wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the problem here is pretty obvious.

I wonder if the ML would also recognise hand-drawn licence plates? https://papersplease.fandom.com/wiki/Fake_passport

https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2018-284-why-automated-number-plat...

Re: I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

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Post by thomasfl »

goatsi wrote: post #25
phodo wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Link ?

They are probably talking about these: https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/products/optical-microsystem... The full video looks neat [0], but like all AR concepts it's made with CGI. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGaEHuCuAs

According to this article, the image quality on the new glasses from Bosch, should actually be very good: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gad...

It is easy to imagine someone with these glasses from Bosch, walking around in a bar. Personal information about other people would projected right to the retina.

Re: I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

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Post by thecatspaw »

irl_ wrote: post #54
simon_000666 wrote: post #44

Ok, I have a use case for this. If you could figure out how to get it off the cloud and low power, it would be awesome to have one of these on the gates to my house, so when I drive up the plates are automatically recognized and the gates open to my car.

The best password is the one written in plaintext on the outside of your car.

I dont think its supposed to be a safety feature, the gate is probably not locked.
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