Meraki Vision object detection

[cmr]

How successful have you found the person and vehicle object detection to be in the Meraki Vision portal?

I would say the person detection is quite good, though the colour options on the 3rd generation MV73X camera is a little off with bags and other carried items counting as clothing.   However, the vehicle detection is pretty poor with, in my case cats being classed as cars and my wife being a motorbike!  This is all in a clear daylight shot that has no other 'noise' as it is a private courtyard space.

What's your experience? 

[alemabrahao]

I think this is a bit tricky, as accuracy depends heavily on camera angle, lighting, and movement.

What you can try is adjusting the camera angle to get a clearer side or top-down view of vehicles, and try using zones of interest to limit detection to specific areas.

[cmr]

@alemabrahao I guess it might help, but unless a developer made a typo, this trace is definitely a cat and not a car...

In fact, if I use the rough match to exact match slider, at rough match over three days I get 40 matches which includes all the cars and some cats.  As I slide towards exact match the cars disappear and as I approach exact match only the cats are left...  I think a developer might have had a laugh here! 

[cmr]

Scratch the exact match issue, that only occurred when I searched on a cat 🙈, so not surprising that it matched other cats!  Still unsure as to why they appear in the first place... 🤔

[alemabrahao]

I think it's totally possible that it's a car, check this out. 🤣🤣

 

[RWelch]

😂 🤣 😂

[Dunky]

hahaha, I get pigeons, magpies, badgers, foxes and muntjack deer triggering alerts when its set for person detection only.  Fortunately these are not too frequent.

[PhilipDAth]

>vehicle detection is pretty poor 

I've mainly used the cameras for number plate recognition (and this was several years ago).  The camera needed to be as low as possible to make it as inline as possible with the car.

The cat recognition is pretty funny.

[DevOps]

I've been piloting a single camera at our staff entrance in our HQ, and during the day, the people detection and analytics (In/Out) has been pretty solid. However, during the night on occasion we have it saying there are people entering and leaving, even though when you search for People it shows none. It as if the 'crossing the line' is being triggered by an imperceivable to  the human eye change in brightness, but the programming isn't validating the count by checking that there is a person in view. I have a call open with Meraki, but unfortunately apart from it being raised up the chain, not much response back.

[PhilipDAth]

It definately needs lighting (or IR lighting) to work nicely.  🙂