Well, 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. Th

Well, 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.