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      Rekor Scout™ Release Notes - July 2020

      Rekor Scout™ Agent and Web Server 2.8.101

      2.8.101

      Agent

      Release Date: July 13, 2020

      • Core: 50-100% performance improvement on ARM64

      • Core: 30% performance improvement on higher-end Nvidia GPUs

      • Watchman: H264/H265/MJPEG Video decode on Nvidia GPU on Linux (reduces CPU usage)

      • Core: Decreased memory usage

      • Core: Small accuracy improvement on plate characters

      • Core: Accuracy improvement for vehicle make/body type/color

      • Core: Significant accuracy improvement on state/province recognition

      • Watchman: Video recording feature supports transcoding to smaller size/framerate (supports using GPU on Jetson)

      • SDK: Alpr API supports image data passed directly on hardware via GPU memory pointer

      • SDK: AlprStream API supports asynchronous loading of batched image data on GPU while the current batch is processing

      • SDK: Alpr API outputs vehicle bounding boxes in addition to license plates

      • Watchman: Improved video decoding process reduces buffering artifacts under heavy load

      • Core: Targeted Mexico and Canada country set

      • Core: Add support/binaries for Ubuntu 20.04

      Web Server:

      • Modernized Web User Interface

      • Better usability for mobile devices

      • Improved coverage for Spanish language translation

      • Optional Multi-Factor Authentication (E-mail and/or text-message confirmation)

      • Additional security options for stronger CJIS compliance (Single user sessions, password rotation, password requirements)

      • Optional field to require all searches to include a user-entered “Justification”

      • Optimizations to improve performance/memory usage for very large (1 million+) alert lists

      Bug fixes:

      • Fixed memory leak appearing under some circumstances

      • Fixed race condition which occasionally caused stream recording to be disabled on agent restart

      • Fix playback issue when multiple cameras are recording on one agent

      • Fixed accuracy-affecting bug on GPU processing with many vehicles in view (i.e., 4+ lanes of traffic)

      • Fixed accuracy issue related to the Iraq dataset

      • Fixed overflow bug on AlprStream Python binding

      • Numerous additional bug fixes

      Archived Windows Installers:

      Archived Linux Repositories:

      • REKOR_VERSION=2.8.101 bash <(curl https://deb.openalpr.com/install)