r/UFOs • u/UAPTracker • Apr 18 '24
"The "BoB Universal Object Tracker" software is free and open-source, now available in Beta version 1.0 for download. Designed for real-time object tracking and analysis, it enables users to monitor objects in the sky with precision by simply plugging in a camera. Essential for UAP tracking ! Resource
🚀 ** BoB Universal Object Tracker Beta Version 1.0!** 🚀
Hi there UFOs community !
Plugin a camera and track objects in the sky with ease using BoB. Available now from [BoB's GitHub repository](https://github.com/bobcamera/bobinstall) is open source and free – your ultimate tool for real-time object tracking and analysis.
🎥 **Installation Video**: Watch our installation guide [here](https://youtu.be/aqAwY16BYXM?si=J8b93lK1DwEbqQWA) to kickstart your journey with BoB
A quick run through the Web GUI features including track plots and heatmaps [here](https://youtu.be/Ykn18dKGP7M?si=2xCNxFNA0T2WphAi)
**Incredible Features:**
🔍 **Live Tracking Dashboard**: Monitor your camera feed, display objects tracked in real-time with precision. Create masks to prevent unwanted false triggers and safeguard sensitive areas.
📹 **Recording Navigation Page**: Journey through BoB's recording navigation page to explore captured events, visualize data with heat maps and trajectory markers, and delve into comprehensive statistics.
🔬 **Rstudio Connectivity Feature**: Unlock advanced data analysis capabilities with BoB's Rstudio connectivity feature. Conduct in-depth data science directly from the platform, empowering you to unravel deeper insights from your discoveries.
**Target PC Specifications:**
- Minimum specs:
- Intel Core i7 Processor
- 16GB (minimum) 32GB RAM (recommended)
- 1GB Network Interface
- 1TB Storage
**Follow BoB on Social Media:**
- Facebook: [BoB on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558147347542)
- Twitter: [BoB on Twitter](https://twitter.com/BobUniversalObj)
- YouTube: [BoB on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@BobUniversalObjectTracker)
**Example Videos:**
- Fast Moving Object (Possibly Military Aircraft): [Watch here](https://youtu.be/S82pohGM7ug?feature=shared)
- Military Aircraft C130: [Watch here](https://youtu.be/OsmeKB3Buf0?feature=shared)
- Military Aircraft Airbus A-400: [Watch here](https://youtu.be/LWM7z9iEsxU?feature=shared)
- ISS in Cloudy Conditions: [Watch here](https://youtu.be/3opfiyqYX8Q?feature=shared)
- Fast Meteor with Long Duration: [Watch here](https://youtu.be/Hk0DUKnUiqo?feature=shared)
More videos are available on BoB's YouTube Channel.
Whether you're a nature enthusiast, wildlife researcher, or simply curious about the world, BoB empowers you to explore the mysteries that surround us.
Thank you for considering BoB for your exploration and discovery needs!
Many Thanks,
Paul
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u/kitty-_cat Apr 19 '24
Perfect! I already have a camera mounted on my roof pointed at the sky but motion events are 99% birds, airplanes, or fast moving clouds. Always wanted something more dedicated to object tracking. I will give this a try!
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Apr 19 '24
You'll still see mostly that, but the object detection and other optimizations drastically reduce the number of videos that you would have otherwise recorded due to the movement of sky. Small, isolated, fast-moving clouds still get picked up as objects, but we hope the future addition of AI assisted object classification will fix this. I should also point out that the web UI makes it easy to rapidly sort through event videos. A heat map of the object(s) and the trajectory are displayed on a thumbnail for each video. In most cases, you don't have to watch the video to tell what's in it.
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u/cb393303 Apr 18 '24
Will you offer support to offload work to a GPU or TPU (like a Coral)? I would think that would help improve performance.
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u/uapbob Apr 18 '24
At the moment we are trying to target as broad a platform as we possible hence why we going with x86. We would like to support ARM as well, targeting something like the Orange Pi 5 but just needed to start somewhere and see if people are interested in what we are doing. We are hoping that we might be able to attract a couple of developers interested in helping out, especially when it comes to hardware acceleration type stuff.
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u/cb393303 Apr 18 '24
I will look into running this, as I have a very bored server and pretty dark skies. Thank you! :D
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u/uapbob Apr 18 '24
Thank you very much, feedback is greatly appreciated. We genuinely want to try and provide the community with some good software that they can use to capture events. Our release is by no means perfect, there will be bugs, we know that, but we also have to start somewhere.
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Apr 18 '24
Hi, BOB hardware dev here. There is currently no gpu support, but it is high on the future version wish list. We've tried to optimize where we were able to, but v1 is still a little heavy on the resource consumption side. Utilizing the gpu is going to be vital when we add on the PTZ control function and AI event classification.
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u/cb393303 Apr 18 '24
Have you also looked at https://frigate.video/ ? Have this built in, or an option to take my Frigate controlled cameras would be wonderful vs needing to carve out more SubStreams to my camera.
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u/djda9l Apr 18 '24
Very interesting ! The minimum requirements seem to be really "off the charts" so to speak. Is there any significant reason for this?
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u/uapbob Apr 18 '24
You can try and run it on any x86, I have tested it on a 10 year old i7 running Ubuntu (it can only run 1 cam, no more). If you want to run using WSL then there is going to be a performance hit as well unfortunately. We do want to add multi camera support in the near future and that is quite hungry as you can imagine. We thought if someone was thinking about buying a PC specifically for this they might as well buy something with longevity versus suggesting a lower spec PC and then having to buy another higher spec PC if they want to run more than one camera. Hardware acceleration will also help so hopefully we can take advantage of that at some point.
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u/ozzybloodyjoe Apr 18 '24
Please keep in mind that people are already using 4 k cameras for they security systems at home ,so you do need a bit of processing power if you run multiple 4 k cameras
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Apr 18 '24
The minimum reqs are set on the high side because we wanted to make it accessible to people who might not have a dedicated Linux machine laying around. Running it in WSL naturally eats a lot of resources. Also, this is an early beta, so it's pretty rough around the edges. We're hoping to improve this with time and maybe a little extra help.
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u/atenne10 Apr 19 '24
This software tied in with the ligo app would be very useful. Especially on Wednesdays and the 24th of the month. Don’t ask why but that’s when they decide to show up. See our haunted planet.
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u/erydayimredditing Apr 19 '24
I7 is extremely broad and there are tons of i5 cpus that beat tons of i7s. Can you specify more specific processor requirements?
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u/uapbob Apr 19 '24
Okay, so the i7 I was referring to has a CPU benchmark of about 7000 and its running Ubuntu. If in future you want to run multiple cameras then you going to need something more powerful. I don't know how much as we honestly have not quite got there yet, but my i7 will not run 2 cams smoothly (I get errors) and recording has not been enabled, which due to the heatmap/track-plot generation will use cpu on top of that.
PS: We are going to attempt to introduce a PTZ in a future release to then separately track and zoom into a target. The initial detection will be done using a fisheye or wide field of view camera and then that target will be passed over to a PTZ for further tracking and zooming for classification purposes etc. This will need CPU power to run CNNs etc to detect as the background will be moving also, so I honestly don't know what sort of minimum spec will be needed in future.
Let me know if that helps or if it confuses the issue even more. Apologies if its confused the issue even more.
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u/erydayimredditing Apr 19 '24
Do you mind telling me which i7 model you have? But that helps a ton and thanks for the response.
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u/UAPTracker Apr 18 '24
BoB Universal Object Tracker is a software tool designed for real-time object tracking and analysis. It allows users to plug in a camera and effortlessly monitor objects in the sky with precision. BoB offers features such as a live tracking dashboard for monitoring camera feeds, creating masks to prevent false triggers, and safeguarding sensitive areas. Additionally, it provides a recording navigation page to explore captured events, visualize data with heat maps and trajectory markers, and access comprehensive statistics. BoB also offers advanced data analysis capabilities with its Rstudio connectivity feature, enabling users to conduct in-depth data science directly from the platform. It targets users interested in tracking various objects in the sky, such as nature enthusiasts, wildlife researchers, or anyone curious about the world around them. BoB is available as open-source software, downloadable from its GitHub repository, and is free to use.
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u/meyriley04 Apr 18 '24
Hey! I’m studying software engineering currently and would love to help in development if it’s available
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u/uapbob Apr 19 '24
As u/UAPTracker suggested, please review our BobCamera GitHub repo. Also feel free to DM me as we can have a chat about the tech we use and see if what we do is of interest to you etc.
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u/Rovert66 Apr 18 '24
Does it require a particular camera brand / model etc?
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Apr 18 '24
The camera needs to be RTSP capable. We've experimented with USB cams, but we can't confidently support non-developer use at this point. Most IP security cameras will support RTSP. Most of us are using Hikvision or Dahua cameras for development.
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u/ozzybloodyjoe Apr 18 '24
Testing with HANWHA cameras now -12 and 15 megapixels panoramic and working fine
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u/UAPTracker Apr 23 '24
u/Old_Games_Are_Better u/kitty-_cat u/cb393303 This video link shows the BoB software tracking an DJI Phantom 4 drone https://youtu.be/jBOO9tohHKs?si=JlilU9HpS3bILsuC
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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '24
I’m excited to check this out when I get home
One thing I noticed though, I’m wearing headphones at full volume and I can barely even tell someone is talking during the Installation video, let alone hear what they’re saying.
But I’ll play with it more later, thanks for sharing op.