Mission

Project Name: Custom Dashcamnet System

- This mission is an individual project
- Create the custom detect program which utilizes zetabot camera.
- Within your individual computers, execute the following mission.  

Writing Custom segNet Program

Similar to how we created a new python file in our team assignment, generate a new python file and name it 02_11-2. tao_dashcamnet_camera.py.

Create a new python file in the Jupyter Notebook Environment:

Press the blue plus button on the top left corner of the web.

Create a new python file by pressing the Python File button

Rename the untitiled python file to 02_11-2. tao_dashcamnet_camera.py
On the new python file, import the libraries necessary. For our detect task, we need to import the Jetson inference library modules and jetson utility library modules
- argparse: This library contains modules that are responsbile for bringing and intitializing the flags or parameters set by the user when envoking the program.
- sys: this library allows us to manipulate/ utilize system functions within our python programs.
- jetson_inference: This library contains all the pre-built networks that can be used for inference task and a functions that would allow for custom models to be used for inference tasks.
  - detectNet: We are importing detectNet module for our dashcam detection task.
- jetson_utils: This library contains modules that are responsible for processing input and output sources along with output stream methods. We will be importing the following modules:
  - videoSource: used to process input source (whether it is a camera, an image, or a video).
  - videoOutput: used to process the output stream.
```
import sys
import argparse

from jetson_inference import detectNet
from jetson_utils import videoSource, videoOutput
```

After all the libraries are imported, initialize the parser variable with argparse.ArgumentParser module.

For our mission, we must receive the network name, and Camera output channel name. Additionally we add our minor functinoality flags.

# parse the command line
# For our mission, We recieve the network name, and Camera name.
# Set up argument parser, so that command line parameters can be read within the program
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Locate objects in a live camera stream using an object detection DNN.",
                                formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter,
                                epilog=detectNet.Usage() + videoSource.Usage() + videoOutput.Usage())
# Major Functionality parameters (required from the user)
parser.add_argument("input_CAMERA", type=str, default="", nargs='?', help="use csi://0 for Raspberry pi Camera")
parser.add_argument("--network", type=str, default="dashcamnet", help="pre-trained model to load")

# Minor Functionality parameters (optional)
parser.add_argument("--overlay", type=str, default="box,labels,conf", help="detection overlay flags (e.g. --overlay=box,labels,conf)\nvalid combinations are:  'box', 'labels', 'conf', 'none'")
parser.add_argument("--threshold", type=float, default=0.5, help="minimum detection threshold to use")

Initialize opt variable to hold all the user-set flags in a list form. If the user has set no flags, terminate the program:

# If no parameter is given from the user, shut the program down
try:
    opt = parser.parse_known_args()[0]
except:
    print("")
    parser.print_help()
    sys.exit(0)

Initialize the necessary variables. Since we wish to infer a network with a camera and show the results with our output stream we will need:
1. net variable for holding the nvidia pre-built networks. For this mission we are using fcn-mobilenet network.
2. input variable for handling the input stream. Using the opt variable created in our previous step, we will bring in input_CAMERA to set our videoSource.
3. display variable for handling the output stream. Although we are accessing the code remotely on our remote computer, the zetabot is equipped with a touch screen display. The display is set on DISPLAY://0
4. buffer variable for managing buffer.
```
# create video sources and outputs
input = videoSource(opt.input_CAMERA, argv=sys.argv)
output = videoOutput("DISPLAY://0", argv=sys.argv)

# load the object detection network
net = detectNet(opt.network, sys.argv, opt.threshold)
```
For this task we are utilizing our camera. On our previous trials, we had to to an inference on a single image. The program could recieve the one image infer it with the network and output a single result.

But with a camera, we need to repeatedly run the inference so that we may capture the incoming frames from the camera and output a constant stream of results.
- We may achieve this by running a while loop until an envoked output stream window is killed by the user.
```
# process frames until the user exits
while display.IsStreaming():
```
- Within the while loop:
  - Capture the current frame from the camera and infer the image using the trained model.
    # capture the next image img = input.Capture() if img is None: # timeout continue # detect objects in the image (with overlay) detections = net.Detect(img, overlay=opt.overlay)
  - Render the result output and update the title bar of the output window.
    # render the output image output.Render(buffers.output) # update the title bar output.SetStatus("{:s} | Network {:.0f} FPS".format(opt.network, net.GetNetworkFPS())) # exit on input/output EOS if not input.IsStreaming() or not output.IsStreaming(): break

Executing the Custom Program

Open the 02_11-3. tao_dashcamnet_camera.ipynb notebook.

Run the cell code which initializes the input/ output stream of the environment as well as the CAMERA variable, which will be the flag that determines the input vairable for the program to be a camera stream.
```
%env DISPLAY=:0
%env csi=:0
%env CAMERA=csi://0
```

Check if your python notebook can read the python code you have written:

!cat /home/zeta/notebook/lecture/'2.AI Training Examples'/'02_11-2. tao_dashcamnet_camera.py'

Execute the tao_dashcamnet_camera python code.

Note that we are setting our major functions,
- --network: to set which networks to use in our detect task.
- input_CAMERA: to set which input stream will be used for our task. It is being set to CAMERA environment variable which holds csi://0 as a string.
```
!python3 /home/zeta/notebook/lecture/'2.AI Training Examples'/'02_11-2. tao_dashcamnet_camera.py' $CAMERA
```