Project 6 - Object detection II, introduction to reading vehicle number plates

Project start: 4 January 2022

Project finish: in progress

Objective: to calculate the weights (i.e. train) for a YOLOv4 neural network and test it with vehicle licence plates in my home Province of British Columbia, Canada.

This is the most complicated project that I will attempt before moving on to the JetBot.

There is quite a bit to this process so this project has many sub-projects. Also, I'm not a pro so the performance is not up to that of a commercial product but does illustrate the basics.

I found out when I tried to train the neural network with my Jetson Nano ot kept freezing so I had to use Google Colab (Pro). Unfortunately Google Colab is only currently available in about half a dozen counties.

This project is based on the Udemy online course:

[Ref 4.] Valentyn Sichkar, "Train YOLO for Object Detection with Custom Data", Udemy, date unknown

If you have any problems or need clarification please contact me: jscanova@gmail.com