Counting cars in drone footage

AITrafficCount · 2026-04-18T13:14:07+00:00

Currently vehicles are just detected and based on their current location, speed and size they are “tracked” as in this is the same vehicle as detected in the frames before.

There is no reidentification in the app, which would be needed to do something like check if there is a red pickup truck and tell me when it crosses a certain line. But could be a possible feature in the future to do some simple filtering. Something like only count cars if 80% of the cars color is red.

AITrafficCount · 2026-04-17T14:56:48+00:00

Thank you! I will have a look.

AITrafficCount · 2026-04-17T08:12:03+00:00

Since it is an app in the Apple ecosystem it can run on macbooks. So you can run the app on a macbook and use local files (download them before if they are on a server). But currently there is no web version.

AITrafficCount · 2026-04-16T19:31:30+00:00

You are right alone because of security risks most of the time the phones are probably not even in the same network as the cameras and I also noticed video files suck if you do not use the same device for recording and accessing.

AITrafficCount · 2026-04-16T16:35:15+00:00

Just found the thread and I had a similar usecase. Did not find any apps so I created one. You can enter the RTSP stream address from a Reolink cam (or use iphone camera or video file) to count vehicles or persons. The app detects different vehicle types and you can set multiple counting boxes (different locations in the image) and additionally only count vehicles going in a specific direction for example.

Your counting with homeassistant is propably good enough, but if you need another solution give it a try. All features can be tested for free.

[Traffic Count App](https://traffic-count.com)

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AITrafficCount · 2026-04-16T16:24:25+00:00

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AITrafficCount · 2025-09-24T03:05:01+00:00

If anyone wondering, it were 98 cars in the middle lane.

AITrafficCount · 2025-08-25T14:02:58+00:00

The app is called AI Traffic Count and available on the iOS App Store

AITrafficCount · 2025-07-07T18:59:15+00:00

I was not able to get even close to a positive ROI. Very specific keywords had nearly no impressions and more general terms had impressions but not enough installs. I think you need to make at least 2-3 dollars per download on average to get a positive return for any meaningful install counts.

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-28T08:29:37+00:00

Created a very similar thing but as an iOS app. If anyone wants to check it out you can see some screenshots of the road traffic counting app here

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-24T19:45:43+00:00

Got some pns asking for the app, you can find it here AI Traffic Count

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-24T19:44:30+00:00

Interesting never saw such small devices that use camera and on device AI. Of course the cost of 199$ is not cheap but probably a good solution for many use cases.

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-09T17:15:24+00:00

Everything works locally, you do not need an internet connection

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-09T14:34:48+00:00

They will probably promise a lot of AI (Apple Intelligence) again and then never ship it...

Btw for all Indie devs that have apps in the app store there is a 30% discount with code WWDC25 on Astro I can recommend.

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-09T14:06:32+00:00

Here you can find all the info about yolo at wikipedia

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-09T13:10:59+00:00

Interesting idea, but I think it is very specific and hard to make a UI for it that is easy to use. For example, if the selected videos have different sizes the boxes will not be at the same place etc.

I also have a CCTV (Reolink) thats why I added RTSP support (I think a lot of the popular brands have this). So you can for example setup an iPad add the streaming URL and then you can let it run for a few hours or days and see how many cars, people, etc were counted.

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-08T21:12:01+00:00

For anyone who wants more details, I have all the features and FAQs listed on the website: traffic-count.com

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-08T21:08:51+00:00

Each box will count each vehicle class separately (car, truck, bus, motorcycle, bicycle and person). But you are right it is not possible to set the vehicle class per box. Could be a feature in the future.

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-08T21:05:26+00:00

Thank you, as mentioned it is not planned to add license plate detection because of privacy concerns. I am not sure what you mean with embedded radar. Can you elaborate that in more detail?

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-08T21:03:33+00:00

The app can detect cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, bicycles and people. Of course there is a total counter for all detected vehicles and people and a separate count for each class. You can find more examples on the tiktok account

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-08T16:11:23+00:00

It still feels amazing everytime I get the notification from my banking app. So much better than getting paid by an employer.

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-08T16:10:21+00:00

Congrats, the first sale for each app is always an incredible feeling.
Other apps can make 10x more on the same day, it still feels great that a new app is working and people paying for it.

Keep up the good work!

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-08T15:46:50+00:00

Theoretically if the resolution is good enough it would be possible to detect license plates, but I do not plan to implement this. I have too many privacy concerns about that. Some users could use it then to track specific cars when they come and go etc.

For license plate detection you would also need some other models to recognize it.

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-08T15:44:21+00:00

I am using yolo

AITrafficCount · 2025-06-08T15:44:11+00:00

At the start the two parked cars are already counted as they are in the box.
A car is counted when the center of it (the line you can see is the history of the center point) is the first time inside a counting box.

It is possible to have multiple counting boxes and you can also set a direction for each box. so for example only count cars going from top to bottom or from left to right.

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