This snap uses a MobileNet SSD network to detect vehicles in a video stream, and then tracks them using the CSRT tracker algorithm implemented on OpenCV. The distance from the camera to the vehicles is then estimated by a simple formula using the bounding box for the vehicle and the camera's focal distance. The later is hard-coded in the code, so do not expect anything accurate: it is more of an example application.
The program is able to track multiple vehicles while still running the neural network for detections on the stream. Extensive multi-threading is used to accomplish this while at the same time trying to be as real-time as possible. This means that the trackers are fed with the latest available frames and some times older frames are not processed.
Sources can be found at https://github.com/alfonsosanchezbeato/car-distance-finder
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On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The manual build process is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the prerequisites installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/snapd.git
cd snapd
makepkg -si
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sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
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sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor.service
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sudo snap install car-distance-finder
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