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Clone this repo on your own machine. 'cd' to the project's root directory and install the required Python packages using
pip install -r requirements.txt
This node version uses the boto3 (the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software Development Kit) Python package to communicate with the Serverless Node Lite Object Detection AWS Lambda instance to do the necessary object detections. If you haven't deployed that, please do so now by following the instructions in that repo.
You should have your AWS Access Key and AWS Secret Key as environment variables on your system by following the instructions on the Node Lite Object Detection README
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your-key-here>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your-secret-key-here>
export LAMBDA_DETECTION_URL=<your-lambda-url-here>
# 'export' command is valid only for unix shells. In Windows - use 'set' instead of 'export'You will now need to set the name of the S3 bucket you'll use to temporarily (they're deleted after detection) store the frames from your camera that will be used by the Lambda function for object detection as well as your AWS default region (e.g. us-east-1) as environment variables
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=<your-default-region-here>
export GRASSLAND_FRAME_S3_BUCKET=<your-s3-bucket-name-here>You'll need to calibrate your Grassland node the first time you run it by letting your node know where the camera its viewing is positioned in the real world. To do that easily we'll use the node GUI's (graphical user interface) simulated, 3D map of the world to virtually set a position and viewing angle that matches that of the camera in the real world. Your node will use this to automatically calculate the right calibration.
Before we start the node, open a second bash terminal and cd to the projects 'gui' subfolder.
cd gui
Then type
npm install
To use the map, you will need a free Mapbox Access Token. You can get a free Mapbox Access token here -> https://docs.mapbox.com/help/how-mapbox-works/access-tokens/
Make a note of your Mapbox token because we'll be using it later.
Return to the first terminal to start the Grassland node. Type
python multi_object_tracking.py --mode CALIBRATING --display 1 [ --additional-options <arg> ]...
(See below for additional options)
The software should start running and pause as it's waiting for you to set the calibration through the GUI.
Go back to your second ('gui') terminal in project's 'gui' directory and type either
MapboxAccessToken='your-Mapbox-token-here' npm run dev-localhost
or
MapboxAccessToken='your-Mapbox-token-here' npm run dev-external
Choose npm run dev-localhost to ensure your GUI server is only accessible to users on this computer via the loopback (localhost/127.0.0.1) interface
Choose npm run dev-external if you want the server to bind to all IPv4 addresses on the local machine making it also accesible to computers on your Local Area Network if you're behind a router or to any computer on the internet if your computer is not behind a router and is connected directly to the internet
(Instead of typing MapboxAccessToken='your-Mapbox-token-here' each time you run your GUI, you can add that line to your ~/.bashrc file to make it a permanent environment variable)
After typing the above command, Webpack will begin bundling your software and your browser will automatically open to the map via port 3000.
Once the map loads, use your mouse's scroll wheel to zoom and the left and right mouse buttons to drag and rotate the map until you've adjusted your browsers view of the map to match the position and orientation of your camera in the real world. Once you've narrowed it down, click on the 'CALIBRATION' toggle button. The GUI's frame dimensions will adjust to match your camera frame's dimensions. Continue adjusting your position until it matches the position and orientation of the real precisely.
As you're adjusting, your node should be receiving new calibration measurements and placing tracked objects on the GUI's map. Continue adjusting while referring to the node's video display until objects tracked in the video display are in their correct positions in the GUI's map.
In other words, you should have the video window that shows you the video that's streaming from the camera up on your computer screen (because the command you used to start the node included the "--display 1" option). Using your mouse, align the virtual map's viewport so it's looking from exact the same vantage point (latitiude, longitude, altitude, angle etc.) as the real camera is in real life.
Once that's done, your calibration values should be set inside the node's database. Now click the 'CALIBRATION' toggle button again to turn CALIBRATING mode off.
Then return to your first terminal, hold down Ctrl-C on your keyboard to stop the node, then restart the node in the default mode (ONLINE)
python multi_object_tracking.py [ --additional-options <arg> ]... See additional options below
--mode
--display <0> | <1> [default: 0] "Displays the input video feed in console with tracked objects and bounding boxes. Useful for debugging the tracker and object detector. If not needed, do not use as it consumes uncessary computation."
--picamera <0> | <1> [default: 0] "DEPRECATED: By default, the computer's webcamera is used as input. If running on a Raspberry Pi, set this option to use the Pi's attached camera as input"
--rotation (<0> | <90> | <180> | <270>) [default: 0] "DEPRECATED: If a Raspberry Pi camera is used for input instead of the webcamera (default), this specifies camera's clockwise rotation"
--video <path/to/video/file> "For debugging purposes, a video file can be used as input instead of an attached webcamera (default). This specifies path to video file
--num_workers <#> [default: 5] "For computers with multi-core CPU's, spreads tasks into separate processes to parralelize processes and speed up software"
Link to current list of Grassland features and modules that will be built next