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  1. frigate

    NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

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  3. firmware

    Alternative IP Camera firmware from an open community (by OpenIPC)

    OpenIPC is an open source operating system from the open community targeting for IP cameras with ARM and MIPS processors from several manufacturers in order to replace that closed, opaque, insecure, often abandoned and unsupported firmware pre-installed by a vendor.

    https://openipc.org/?locale=en

  4. go2rtc

    Ultimate camera streaming application

  5. mediamtx

    Ready-to-use Media-over-QUIC / SRT / WebRTC / RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS / MPEG-TS / RTP media server and media proxy that allows to read, publish, proxy, record and playback video and audio streams.

  6. Face Recognition

    The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line

    I'd check out the OpenCV documentation and examples. This is basically what I use for face recognition in videos[0]; for recognising cars or other objects, you'd probably want to either train your own model or use something like OpenCV's YOLOv3 (example: [1] but you'd need to steal the video reading code from the first link[0])

    [0] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition/blob/master/exa...

    [1] https://github.com/deveth0/python-opencv/tree/master/objectD...

  7. python-opencv

    Repository with some examples on OpenCV

    I'd check out the OpenCV documentation and examples. This is basically what I use for face recognition in videos[0]; for recognising cars or other objects, you'd probably want to either train your own model or use something like OpenCV's YOLOv3 (example: [1] but you'd need to steal the video reading code from the first link[0])

    [0] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition/blob/master/exa...

    [1] https://github.com/deveth0/python-opencv/tree/master/objectD...

  8. MotionSpot

    Object detection/tracking add-on for Motion cctv software

    I saw a bunch of people doing this.

    I really wish there was a more unixy tool available in package managers doing this.

    - [0] https://github.com/xj25vm/MotionSpot/blob/main/motionspot.py

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