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Tutorial: Detection
Traffic Monitoring
Detect illegal street parking and notify the VMS server if a car remains parked longer than the legally allowed time.
# Install vmspy
# - Download the vmspy package that matches your system's Python version
!unzip vmspy.zip
!./vmspy/install-vmspy-collab.sh
# Install YOLO (Ultralytics)
%pip install ultralytics
import ultralytics
from ultralytics import YOLO
# Load YOLO model (lightweight version)
model = YOLO('yolo11n.pt')
# Import necessary modules
from tarfile import NUL # Used as a null return value (note: None is generally recommended)
import cv2
import time
from shapely.geometry import Point
from shapely.geometry.polygon import Polygon
# Input frame resolution (used for normalization)
input_width = 640
input_height = 640
# Configure the live_video object (VMS streaming interface)
live_video = vmspy.live_video()
live_video.set_keyframe_only(True) # Use keyframes only for performance optimization
live_video.set_image_size(input_width, input_height)
live_video.set_pixel_format("BGR") # OpenCV uses BGR format
live_video.init("url.to.vmsserver", 3300, "admin", "admin")
# Define the monitoring zone (normalized coordinates: 0.0 ~ 1.0)
# This zone will also be visualized on the VMS server
monitoring_zone_points = [
(0.3380152329749104, 0.3314180107526881),
(0.42672491039426524, 0.3404905913978495),
(0.41261200716845886, 0.9241599462365592),
(0.1323700716845878, 0.9060147849462368)
]
monitoring_zone = Polygon(monitoring_zone_points)
# Draw the monitoring zone on the VMS display
live_video.draw_polygon(monitoring_zone_points, border_color="purple", border_thickness=5)
# Configure detection visualization in VMS
live_video.set_detection_class(model.names)
live_video.set_detection_box(border_color="blue", border_thickness=5)
live_video.set_detection_caption(
show_object_id=True,
show_class_name=True,
show_confidence=False
)
# Configuration parameters (in seconds)
config = {
"parking_violation_sec": 10, # Time threshold to consider a parking violation
"periodic_check_sec": 10, # Interval for repeated reporting
"remove_criteria_sec": 10 # Time to remove inactive tracked objects
}
# Simple tracking logic to manage object persistence and event triggering
class TrackingHistory():
def __init__(self):
self.history = {}
def update(self, key, frame_info):
"""
Update tracking information for a given object (track_id).
Returns the initial frame_info when a reporting condition is met.
"""
timestamp = frame_info["timestamp"]
if key in self.history:
track_item = self.history[key]
track_item["timestamp_last"] = timestamp
# Check if it's time to report again
if timestamp > track_item["timestamp_report"]:
track_item["timestamp_report"] = timestamp + config["periodic_check_sec"]
print(f"{key}: REPORTED / n={len(self.history)}")
return track_item["frameinfo0"]
else:
# First time seeing this object
self.history[key] = {
"frameinfo0": frame_info.copy(), # Store initial frame info
"timestamp_first": timestamp,
"timestamp_last": timestamp,
"timestamp_report": timestamp + config["parking_violation_sec"]
}
print(f"{key}: CREATED / n={len(self.history)}")
return NUL # No event to report
def remove_old_items(self, frame_info):
"""
Remove objects that have not been updated recently.
"""
current_timestamp = frame_info["timestamp"]
min_sec = config["remove_criteria_sec"]
keys_to_remove = [
key for key, value in self.history.items()
if current_timestamp - value["timestamp_last"] > min_sec
]
for key in keys_to_remove:
sec = current_timestamp - self.history[key]["timestamp_first"]
del self.history[key]
print(f"{key}: REMOVED ({sec}sec) / n={len(self.history)}")
return len(keys_to_remove)
tracking = TrackingHistory()
# Start live video streaming from channel
ch_no = 1
live_video.start(ch_no)
count = 0
while count < 10000:
count += 1
# Retrieve frame and metadata
(frame_image, frame_info) = live_video.get_frame()
# End condition: no more frames
if frame_image.size == 0 and count > 2:
print("\nEnd of stream")
break
# Run object detection / tracking
timestamp_detect_start = time.time_ns()
results = model.track(frame_image, persist=True, verbose=False)
# Alternative: results = model.predict(frame_image, verbose=False)
time_detect_elapsed = (time.time_ns() - timestamp_detect_start) / 1_000_000_000
# Process detection results
for box in results[0].boxes:
# Extract tracking ID
if box.id is not None:
track_id = int(box.id[0].item())
else:
continue # Skip objects without tracking ID
# Convert bounding box to normalized coordinates
xyxy = box.xyxy[0].tolist()
x = xyxy[0] / input_width
y = xyxy[1] / input_height
w = (xyxy[2] - xyxy[0]) / input_width
h = (xyxy[3] - xyxy[1]) / input_height
class_id = int(box.cls[0].item())
conf = box.conf[0].item()
# Check if object center is inside monitoring zone
if monitoring_zone.contains(Point(x + w / 2, y + h / 2)):
name = model.names[class_id]
# Send detection to VMS
live_video.input_detection(
x, y, w, h,
class_id=class_id,
object_id=track_id,
confidence=conf
)
# Update tracking state
frame_info0 = tracking.update(track_id, frame_info)
# If violation condition is met, report event
if frame_info0 != NUL:
duration = float(frame_info["timestamp"] - frame_info0["timestamp"])
print(f"duration: {duration}")
live_video.report_event(
frame_info0,
x, y, w, h,
duration=duration,
event_type_id=0,
class_id=class_id,
object_id=track_id
)
# Cleanup stale tracking entries
tracking.remove_old_items(frame_info)
# Send all detections to VMS
live_video.send_detections(frame_info)


