Automated Vehicle Detection and Alerting System

Overview

This project detects vehicles and license plates using YOLOv8, recognizes license plates with PaddleOCR, tracks vehicles using BYTETracker and SORT, and sends alerts for unauthorized vehicles via AWS SNS.

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Ensure that you have your trained YOLO models (best_vehicle.pt and license_plate_detector.pt) inside the models/ directory.

Run the system using:

python main.py

AWS Configuration

Set up environment variables for AWS SNS and RDS:

export SNS_TOPIC_ARN='your-sns-topic-arn'
export RDS_HOST='your-rds-host'
export RDS_USER='your-rds-user'
export RDS_PASSWORD='your-rds-password'