visionai 0.3.22

Vision AI toolkit

Ready to deploy Vision AI scenarios. Open source. Try our CLI now.

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Documentation: https://docs.visionify.ai

Source Code: https://github.com/visionify/visionai

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VisionAI provides a set of command line utilities for running Vision AI scenarios. We also have several industrial use-cases that are ready for production deployment. VisionAI is primarily a CLI (Command Line Interface) - but it also provides a Web-based GUI for managing your cameras. VisionAI is a developed by the team at Visionify - and is a part of the Workplace Safety suite of products.

Key features of VisionAI include:

• Easy to use: VisionAI is designed to be a no-code platform for deploying Vision AI solutions for common workplace safety scenarios. The command-line interface (CLI) or Web interface are designed to be used by non-technical users as well as technical users.
• Production Ready: VisionAI provides a library of production-ready Workplace Safety scenarios that can be directly used out of the box. Each of these scenarios is trained from a large dataset of real-world images and videos.
• Open Source: VisionAI library is Open Source is available through GPLv3 license. You can use it for free and contribute to it as well. We also offer commercial licenses to enterprises that want to modify the codebase.
• Custom Scenarios: VisionAI can supports custom use-cases and scenarios. We have a flexible architecture based on NVIDIA triton server to serve multiple models, and common scenario pattern that can be used to easily add new use-cases. Check the customization documentation to get more information on how this can be achieved.
• Integrations: VisionAI currently integrates with REDIS PubSub and Azure Event hubs for alerts and notifications. We have roadmap plans to add support for other message brokers as well.
• Cloud Ready: VisionAI is available as as an Azure Marketplace offer. This provides scalable architecture for enterprise installations supporting a large number of cameras and scenarios.

Scenarios

We support several Workplace health and safety scenarios. These are listed below. We are continuously adding new scenarios and you can contact us if you need a scenario that is not listed here.

VisionAI focuses on workplace health and safety models - and majority of the models you see here have been developed with that in mind. We are continuously working on new scenarios - and our current scenario repo consists of over 60 scenarios that are listed here.

Quick Start

• Install VisionAI application through PyPI.

$ pip install visionai

• Initialize visionai by running the following command. This would download the required dependencies on your setup. This might take a few minutes to complete as some of the dependencies are pretty large in size (1GB for Pytorch etc.)

$ visionai init

• Once the initialization is successful, you can see the following output:

$ visionai init
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Grafana server is at: http://localhost:3003
Redis server is at: localhost:6379
Triton http server is at: http://localhost:8000
Triton grpc server is at: grpc://localhost:8001
Triton prometheus metrics server is at: http://localhost:8002/metrics
API server already running at: http://localhost:3002
Web server already running at: http://localhost:3001

• This indicates that different services required for running VisionAI are running on your machine.

Service	Port	Purpose
Web UI	http://localhost:3001	VisionAI Web-app
Web API	http://localhost:3002	VisionAI API service
Triton HTTP	http://localhost:8000	Triton Model server (http)
Triton GRPC	grpc://localhost:8001	Triton Model server (grpc)
Triton Metrics	http://localhost:8002	Triton Model metrics server (prometheus)
Redis	redis://localhost:6379	Redis server, currently supports PUBSUB
Grafana	http://localhost:3003	Grafana server for charting & graphing

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• To list down available scenarios by running the following command.

$ visionai scenarios list

• Run a scenario by running the following command. This would run the scenario on your local web-cam.

$ visionai scenarios test ppe-detection

• You can observe the command prompt for the output of the scenario. This scenario generates events when a person is detected without a PPE.

• You can also run this scenario on IP camera (RTSP, RTMP, RTP, HLS etc). For example:

$ visionai scenarios test ppe-detection --camera rtsp://192.168.0.1:554/1

• You can also run this scenario on a video file. For example:

$ visionai scenarios test ppe-detection --video /path/to/video.mp4

• You can also create a pipeline to run multiple scenarios on a single camera. For example:

$ visionai camera add --name OFFICE-01 --url rtsp://192.186.0.1:554/1
$ visionai pipeline create --name test-pipeline --camera OFFICE-01
$ visionai pipeline add-scenario --name test-pipeline --scenario ppe-detection
$ visionai pipeline add-scenario --name test-pipeline --scenario face-blur
$ visionai pipeline add-scenario --name test-pipeline --scenario smoke-and-fire-detection
$ visionai pipeline start --name test-pipeline

• VisionAI also supports a web-based option for managing cameras, scenarios and pipeline. You can run the following command to start the web-based GUI. Once the web-based GUI is started, you can access it at http://localhost:3001.

$ visionai web start

Web service API available at: http://localhost:3002
Web app available at: http://localhost:3001

• This would show an initial screen similar to this:

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• You can manage cameras, scenarios, pipelines, see events etc., directly on the web-app. The web-app is running your own local compute instance. All the data is saved in your machine, and it is persistent as long as VisionAI application is not uninstalled.

• VisionAI supports out-of-box integration with Redis, Prometheus, Grafana and Azure Event Hub. Once the web-app is started, you can view the Grafana dashboard at: http://localhost:3003. The default username and password is admin/admin.

Grafana server is at: http://localhost:3003
Redis server is at: redis://localhost:6379

Deploy to Azure

Deploy a fully configured and tested solution directly from Azure Marketplace. VisionAI runs computer vision models, most of which run orders of magnitude faster if executed on a GPU machine. Our Azure Marketplace offer VisionAI Community Edition is available through Azure Marketplace here (TODO). The community edition deploys a fully configured Virtual Machine with the recommended hardware and software options.

• TODO: Point to ARM template that needs to be deployed (using these instructions and here is an example JSON file).

Scenarios

VisionAI is organized in terms of scenarios. Consider each scenario as being a business use-case, that is solved by a combination of Machine Learning models and an inference algorithm. For example Warn me when max occupancy of this area exceeds 80 people is a business scenario, where as the People detection is an ML model.

VisionAI supports 60 scenarios currently and more are being added continuously. Our current focus is on Workplace Safety scenarios. Please contact us if a scenario you need is not present in our repo and we will look into it.

$ visionai scenarios list

Models

To support the running various scenarios - VisionAI relies a set of Machine Learning models that have been specifically trained with Industrial use-cases datasets. These models must be served through NVIDIA triton framework. VisionAI makes serving these models easy through a single command-line interface:

$ visionai models serve

Any time a new scenario is downloaded, the model server is automatically restarted to load and serve the new model. You can check the status of models being served by VisionAI through the following commands.

$ visionai models list

Don't think you'll need to shut down the model server. However, if you do, you can do so through the following command.

$ visionai models stop

Cameras

You can add/remove cameras through the following commands.

$ visionai models add --name OFFICE-01 --url rtsp://192.168.0.1:554/1
$ visionai models remove --name OFFICE-01

You can find the named camera instances through the cameras list command.

$ visionai cameras list

Pipelines

Pipelines allow running complex scenarios (one after another, or in parallel) on a single camera. You can create a pipeline through the following command.

$ visionai pipeline create --name test-pipeline --camera OFFICE-01

You can add a scenario to a pipeline through the following command.

$ visionai pipeline add-scenario --name test-pipeline --scenario ppe-detection

You can start a pipeline through the following command.

$ visionai pipeline start --name test-pipeline

You can stop a pipeline through the following command.

$ visionai pipeline stop --name test-pipeline

Events

VisionAI supports a variety of events that can be used to trigger actions. Our primary mode of events is through PubSub mechanism. VisionAI supports redis pubsub, and Azure Event Hub for posting events. These can be later extended to support emails alerts, SMS alerts, and other mechanisms.

Each event is in the form of a JSON object. The following is an example of an event that is posted when a smoke is detected by the smoke-and-fire-detection scenario.

{
    "camera": "camera-01",
    "scenario": "smoke-and-fire-detection",
    "event_name": "smoke-detected",
    "event_details": {
        "camera": "camera-01",
        "date": "2023-01-04 11:05:02",
        "confidence": 0.92
    }
}

To listen to events, you can subscribe to the redis pubsub mechanism as follows:

import redis
r = redis.Redis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
p = r.pubsub()
p.subscribe('visionai')
for message in p.listen():
    print(message)

Web App

VisionAI comes with a web app that can be used to view the events and the status of the system. You can perform all of the activities that are supported through the CLI through the web app as well. In order to start the web-app, use the following command:

$ visionai web

Next steps

Congratulations! You have successfully configured and used VisionAI toolkit. Now go through Tutorials to learn about how to run multiple scnearios, how to configure each scenario for the events you need, how to set up pipelines with multiple cameras and scenarios.

Or you can also browse through our scenarios section to understand different use-cases that are supported currently. If you have a need for a scenario, do not hesitate to submit a request here.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to VisionAI. Please read our contribution guidelines to learn about how you can contribute to VisionAI.

License

VIsionAI is licensed under the GPLv3 License. If you need a commercial license, please contact us.