blakeblackshear.frigate/docs/docs/guides/false_positives.md
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Add object filter ratio (#2952)
* Add object ratio config parameters

Issue: #2948

* Add config test for object filter ratios

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* Address review comments

- Accept `ratio` default
- Rename `bounds` to `box` for consistency
- Add migration for new field

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* Fix logical errors

- field migrations require default values
- `clipped` referenced the wrong index for region, since it shifted
- missed an inclusion of `ratio` for detections in `process_frames`
- revert naming `o[2]` as `box` since it is out of scope!

This has now been test-run against a video, so I believe the kinks are
worked out.

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* Update contributing notes for `make`

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* Fix migration

- Ensure that defaults match between Event and migration script
- Deconflict migration script number (from rebase)

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* Filter objects out of ratio bounds

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* Update migration file to 009

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---
id: false_positives
title: Reducing false positives
---
Tune your object filters to adjust false positives: `min_area`, `max_area`, `min_ratio`, `max_ratio`, `min_score`, `threshold`.
The `min_area` and `max_area` values are compared against the area (number of pixels) from a given detected object. If the area is outside this range, the object will be ignored as a false positive. This allows objects that must be too small or too large to be ignored.
Similarly, the `min_ratio` and `max_ratio` values are compared against a given detected object's width/height ratio (in pixels). If the ratio is outside this range, the object will be ignored as a false positive. This allows objects that are proportionally too short-and-wide (higher ratio) or too tall-and-narrow (smaller ratio) to be ignored.
For object filters in your configuration, any single detection below `min_score` will be ignored as a false positive. `threshold` is based on the median of the history of scores (padded to 3 values) for a tracked object. Consider the following frames when `min_score` is set to 0.6 and threshold is set to 0.85:
| Frame | Current Score | Score History | Computed Score | Detected Object |
| ----- | ------------- | --------------------------------- | -------------- | --------------- |
| 1 | 0.7 | 0.0, 0, 0.7 | 0.0 | No |
| 2 | 0.55 | 0.0, 0.7, 0.0 | 0.0 | No |
| 3 | 0.85 | 0.7, 0.0, 0.85 | 0.7 | No |
| 4 | 0.90 | 0.7, 0.85, 0.95, 0.90 | 0.875 | Yes |
| 5 | 0.88 | 0.7, 0.85, 0.95, 0.90, 0.88 | 0.88 | Yes |
| 6 | 0.95 | 0.7, 0.85, 0.95, 0.90, 0.88, 0.95 | 0.89 | Yes |
In frame 2, the score is below the `min_score` value, so frigate ignores it and it becomes a 0.0. The computed score is the median of the score history (padding to at least 3 values), and only when that computed score crosses the `threshold` is the object marked as a true positive. That happens in frame 4 in the example.