Real-time License Plate Recognition with YOLOv7 + OCR in Google Colab GPU | ANPR/ALPR Tutorial 2023

Join Rama, Co-founder and CEO of Theos AI, as he demonstrates how to perform real-time license plate recognition using YOLO v7 and OCR. This tutorial will guide you through setting up your environment, using Google Colab, and performing object detection on license plates in a near real-time scenario.

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*Chapters*:
00:00 - Introduction
00:07 - Overview of Object Detection with YOLO v7
01:02 - Setting Up the License Plate Recognition Model
02:02 - Google Colab Notebook Walkthrough
03:08 - Implementing OCR on Detected License Plates
07:00 - Running the Complete Model and Testing
10:52 - Final Results and Downloading the Output Video
14:38 - Conclusion and Further Resources

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[mabroukhamid]

please How do I obtain the training accuracy?

[nourabdelghany]

Thanks for your great efforts!...Can I enter my own datasets if I want to detect "Egyptian" license plates?

[sebaarr]

Hi! Great job, it looks amazing. It's possible to download the weights after train?

[luchador]

Thank you for your great project!Instead of inputting a video for my university homework, I need to do it in real time with the ESP32 Cam. I need to detect the plate from the camera, keep the plate code in communication with the Arduino and use it. After training YOLO, how can I do plate detection and text extraction with ESP32 Cam? I will be grateful if you help

[leminhduy]

Anh có thể cho xin code về phần ocr mà không cần yolov7 không

[kishoreg]

i have a question - insted of using ocr model. can i train my yolo v7 model to detect alphabets and numbers .. classes will be car, lp, 0-9, A-Z. isn't this better than using two different detection.

[pratyushpandey]

Amazing work.... but i have a question will it work offline once trained and downloaded????

[varundeliwala]

Hi rama, I am facing this error, in the last google colab cell,
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_installation_path'
for the line number 16: yolov7 = client.get(ALGORITHM, version=ALGORITHM_VERSION)
can you please help me out?

[saifnacer]

Thank you, it looks amazing, It's possible to work on my local machine not on colab, if yes can you please tell me how ??

[aliali-sjjp]

hay thanks to let me know about the great theos and for the great lesson, this is my question please :
in the Detect and read script

Replace configuration variables with my own values.
can i do it this way because i deleted my weight tag from my theos session but before deleted i download the weights Hopeing that will have a way to implement it in this way WEIGHTS =

please explain to me what i can do now

[Micro]

Hi! After training a custom model starting from the yolov7-tiny , the inference time grows a lot ( like 4 times longer). The dataset used is not so large (500-600 images). What could be the reason for this ?

[dayalan]

Great work. Will this run on mobile phone s?

[jorgeskiqq]

Thank you a lot. I hope u can help me, i need know how to work in real time, save the plate, after it put it on a database whit date and time.

[seanlowwei]

Hi there, I am new to machine learning. I have my own machine learning model, I have already used Theos ai to annotate and draw bounding boxes for 1000 images, may I know how I can export/download the json file for each image?

[soumyakapat]

Sir, how can I collect the license plate number in colab, because it is only showing in the output video only but I need the license plate number as a string?

[arazib]

Thanks for your training. Is it possible to read Asian languages like Farsi and how are you?

[thisisrajatkumar]

Hii.
Can we setup this whole program in system and make use it by web cam.

[jeremyterrible]

can i use that dataset for other country or do i need to create my own?

[theelofiguy]

no weights with tag found for yolov7, help me please

[coconutnut]

What model is faster to train yolov5 or yolov7?