ALPR Unconstrained

[Baxulio]

Hello Dear Mr. Stéphane Charette,

I tried the DarkPlate executable app with the config files and weghts you provided and it works! But if I replace them with the files and weights from this url (http://sergiomsilva.com/pubs/alpr-unconstrained/) it doesn't work.

App exits here:

bahman@Omen:~/projects/DarkPlate/build/src$ ./DarkPlate ../../media/m2.mp4
Looking for ./DarkPlate.cfg
Looking for ../DarkPlate.cfg
Looking for ../../DarkPlate.cfg
Looking for nn/DarkPlate.cfg
Looking for ../nn/DarkPlate.cfg
Looking for ../../nn/DarkPlate.cfg
Found neural network: ../../nn/DarkPlate.cfg

How can I adopt aforementioned pretrained models? Thanks in advance!

[stephanecharette]

You replaced the neural network files with files from someone else, trained in a different way, perhaps not even Darknet/YOLO files, and now you'd like me to debug things for you?

Stick with the neural network files I provide, or train your own as described in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz97_-PCxl4

[Baxulio]

Good Morning Dear Mr. Stéphane Charette,

In this published paper http://sergiomsilva.com/pubs/alpr-unconstrained/ authors already provided well-trained models, including Darknet trained network. One can get them by this script:

wget -c -N http://sergiomsilva.com/data/eccv2018/ocr/ocr-net.cfg     -P data/ocr/
wget -c -N http://sergiomsilva.com/data/eccv2018/ocr/ocr-net.names   -P data/ocr/
wget -c -N http://sergiomsilva.com/data/eccv2018/ocr/ocr-net.weights -P data/ocr/
wget -c -N http://sergiomsilva.com/data/eccv2018/ocr/ocr-net.data    -P data/ocr/

I just wondered whether it's possible to adopt these files in DarkPlate without retraining or anything else. Now I understand that this way doesn't work and DarkPlate has its own structure of files.

Anyway thank you for the great project and your answer!

[stephanecharette]

I have no idea, you'd have to try it out.