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What LLM can I get and feed hundreds of hours of video into that will give me the position of a specific vehicle alongside when that happened? An LLM isn’t goi
by maccard 4mo ago
What LLM can I get and feed hundreds of hours of video into that will give me the position of a specific vehicle alongside when that happened?
An LLM isn’t going to help you here, but basic Computer Vision and a SQL database has been a solution _if you have the cameras_. I wrote a license plate reader as a university project using OpenCV almost 20 years ago.
- handoflixue 4mo agoIf you were able to write one 20 years ago, I dare say an LLM could whip one up super-fast. Or just search the internet and tell you where to find one. One of the risks of LLMs is that a lot of tasks go from "an expert could do this easily given a few weeks" to "anyone who thinks to ask an LLM can do this easily and get results the same day"
- jubilanti 4mo ago[flagged]
- tough 4mo agowhy wouldn't codex or claude just reach for whatever FOSS https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
- jubilanti 4mo ago[flagged]
- microgpt 4mo agoYes, an ALPR is basically just a glorified [thing that an ALPR does]
- SR2Z 4mo agoI honestly can't tell if this is ragebait or you believe this. My friend, if you have a database of license plates extracted from single images taken by multiple cameras, YOU ARE TRACKING UNIQUE VEHICLES ACROSS A REGION. Terabytes of data don't matter because you don't need to search terabytes, you need to search a few MB of text data. You don't even have to store the original video.
- assimpleaspossi 4mo agoBut you don't have such a database.
- therealdrag0 4mo agoYou’re moving the goalposts. The original point of this thread is that Flock AI technology is hardly needed to efficiently search traditional video footage for license plates.
- tough 4mo agoDropbox stock is trading at 50% of its initial price 5y ago when it went public, maybe the public markets also don't understand the difference between rsync and Dropbox.
- malcolmgreaves 4mo agoOk, so you don’t understand that ALPR is two commodity technologies: object detection and OCR.
- handoflixue 4mo ago> Assuming they have access to terabytes of regional video surveillance but don't have their own compute besides what the LLM will buy for them Amazing how you can move the goalposts to make things impossible, isn't it? Where in the world did "without compute" come from? Are they not even allowed a decent desktop computer?
- nullsanity 4mo ago[dead]
- Manuel_D 4mo agoAutomated License plate readers are a half century old at this point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni...
- maccard 4mo ago> One of the risks of LLMs is that a lot of tasks go from "an expert could do this easily given a few weeks" to "anyone who thinks to ask an LLM can do this easily and get results the same day" By that logic, all problems are solved with LLMs, though.
- handoflixue 4mo agoHonestly, there's plenty of experts worried about exactly that. But if you'd prefer, feel free to mentally scope my claim to the domain of "things we already know LLMS can do, like copying previously solved software problems"
- antonvs 4mo agoThe claim was "a lot of tasks", which is certainly true. It wasn't "all tasks".
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4mo agoThis point is moot, though. The claim either implicitly includes the task under discussion or it's a non sequitur.
- antonvs 4mo agoAn LLM could certainly write you an OpenCV program to do this task. I’ve used them for exactly that kind of work. The moot non sequitur is yours.
- abalashov 4mo agoI dare say it might require a little more knowledge than _anyone_ would possess.
- IncreasePosts 4mo agoAny competent llm would write a script using opencv to extract the license plates. I did this with Gemini 3, mostly for fun and to test it's capabilities. Teslausb records all dash cam videos and auto syncs it to my nas when in wifi range. Yolo and opencv extracts and does ocr on any defected license plate, and puts it all on a map, along with trip information. Not particularly useful or interesting, and not something I would have done pre-llms, but the difficulty was basically writing a one paragraph prompt and using some free tokens
- maccard 4mo agoBy that logic, all problems are solved by LLMs. If that was true, then there's no reason for any products to exist for anything anymore.
- IncreasePosts 4mo agoI think the key word is on "any one". Personally, I know how do to the work, I just didn't want to because it provided minimum value to me. But I didn't actually need to know how to do it, because the llm produced perfect results for me without needing to prompt it with any specifics
- maccard 4mo agoBut what you have is a license plate reader. They've existed and are a solved(mostly) problem since the 80s. Flock isn't an ANPR, it's a network of cameras that has that as a feature. An LLM isn't replacing an interconnected camera network, it's replacing a script that can be replicated from a 6 year old blog post!
- antonvs 4mo agoYou made this same incorrect claim in another comment. You’re generalizing beyond what others are claiming, without any basis. (This is the logical fallacy known as hasty generalization.)