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I don't understand the hate that's being directed at this article. This author isn't the person basically said, "LOL. I'll string together some python in an aft
by jonathankoren 9y ago
I don't understand the hate that's being directed at this article. This author isn't the person basically said, "LOL. I'll string together some python in an afternoon and do it." This author tried to replicate the "How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code" article, and unsurprisingly came to the conclusion, "No, he didn't."
- naikrovek 9y agoWell, YouTube-encoded video is a severe mistake and it was his assumption that this would be representative of video out of a commercial camera. It is not. The camera is also not calibrated. Text recognition does not work well on video whose distortion characteristics are not known. I am not at all surprised that this is his result. This morning I calibrated my dashcam and used OpenALPR to replicate this, and I got FAR better results than this blogger. At the end of a 30-minute section of heavy traffic, I had many hundreds of license plates with 95% confidence or better. I do not have a way to verify the plates automatically, so I don't know how many of those are actually correct. I filmed at 2560x1440 at 30fps.
- jonathankoren 9y agoAnd all of this is true of the original boastful post, but yet no one was suspicious of those results.