Preview - Vehicle Analytics

The following endpoints will return bounding box coordinates and attributes for any vehicles and license plates detected in an image. For vehicles, the attributes include "vehicleType" (make, model, generation) and "color". For license plates, the attributes include the "lpString" (characters from the plate) and "region" (e.g. Florida, Germany, etc.).

Two different endpoints are available in this preview. Use the one ending in "/us" if you'll be testing images with US plates, or use "/eu" if testing images with plates from the EU.

Sighthound will provide an API key to you. This key is required to be in the request header as shown below.

Sighthound Cloud API Request

POST https://preview.sighthoundapi.com/v2/vehicle/us  (LPR for US)
POST https://preview.sighthoundapi.com/v2/vehicle/eu  (LPR for EU)

Request Headers

Content-Type: application/json
X-API-Key: YOUR-API-KEY

Request Body

{
    "urlList": [ 
        "https://d1mfcqjbhp6mmy.cloudfront.net/vehicles/audi-sports-car-r8-marlene.jpg"
    ]
}

Note: urlList is limited to 1 item in the preview API

Example Request

curl -d '{ "urlList":["https://d1mfcqjbhp6mmy.cloudfront.net/vehicles/audi-sports-car-r8-marlene.jpeg"] }' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-API-Key: YOUR-API-KEY" -X POST https://preview.sighthoundapi.com/v2/vehicle/eu

Note: Update YOUR-API-KEY with your actual key.

Example Response

{
  "apiVersion": {
    "major": 1,
    "minor": 1
  },
  "frameDimensions": {
    "w": 900,
    "h": 620
  },
  "frameSource": "/tmp/cloudv3-image-tmpdir-1659537084813/a073c1e4d344491a868f3ca000d3809a/__vehicles__audi-sports-car-r8-marlene.jpeg",
  "sourceId": "cloud",
  "frameId": "cloud-frame-13-1659537083268",
  "analyticsTimestamp": 1660055701536,
  "frameTimestamp": 1660055701507,
  "metaClasses": {
    "licensePlates": {
      "cloud-lp-11-1659537083268": {
        "attributes": {
          "lpString": {
            "value": "RTBB221",
            "attributeScore": 1,
            "detectionScore": 0.88,
            "updated": true
          },
          "lpRegion": {
            "value": "Germany",
            "attributeScore": 1,
            "detectionScore": 0.88,
            "updated": true
          }
        },
        "firstFrameTimestamp": 1660055701507,
        "class": "licensePlate",
        "bestDetectionTimestamp": 1660055701507,
        "box": {
          "height": 27,
          "width": 119,
          "x": 620,
          "y": 451
        },
        "detectionScore": 0.88,
        "updated": true,
        "links": [
          {
            "metaClass": "vehicles",
            "id": "cloud-car-14-1659537083277"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "vehicles": {
      "cloud-car-14-1659537083277": {
        "attributes": {
          "vehicleType": {
            "value": {
              "make": "audi",
              "model": "r8",
              "generation": "2007-2014"
            },
            "attributeScore": 1,
            "detectionScore": 0.94,
            "updated": true
          },
          "color": {
            "value": "white",
            "attributeScore": 1,
            "detectionScore": 0.94,
            "updated": true
          }
        },
        "firstFrameTimestamp": 1660055701507,
        "class": "car",
        "bestDetectionTimestamp": 1660055701507,
        "box": {
          "height": 269,
          "width": 403,
          "x": 429,
          "y": 289
        },
        "detectionScore": 0.94,
        "updated": true,
        "links": [
          {
            "metaClass": "licensePlates",
            "id": "cloud-lp-11-1659537083268"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "links": [
    {
      "type": "image",
      "path": "cloud-frame-13-1659537083268.jpg",
      "format": "jpg"
    }
  ],
  "request_id": "a073c1e4d344491a868f3ca000d3809a",
  "engine_version": "",
  "time_analytics_start": 1660055701.497,
  "time_analytics_complete": 1660055701.588
}