I have a C# program that has been crashing after a variable amount of time. I've tracked it down to OpenALPR and have now duplicated the problem in a test program.
I basically ask to get the plates from an image in a while loop. It fails after a bunch of iterations. Failed after Iterations : 179, 221, 516, 429, 295, 150
Program output:
...
Iter (219) No Plates Found in image 71197e9d829d4d429e74a71c983380dc_09032015
134103267.jpg
Config file location provided via API
LBP Time: 0.005ms.
Total Time to process image: 1.916ms.
Iter (220) No Plates Found in image 71197e9d829d4d429e74a71c983380dc_09032015
134103267.jpg
Config file location provided via API
LBP Time: 0.003ms.
Total Time to process image: 4.071ms.
Iter (221) No Plates Found in image 71197e9d829d4d429e74a71c983380dc_09032015
134103267.jpg
Config file location provided via API
Failure message:
Unhandled Exception:
Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write
protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at openalprnet.AlprNet.Dispose(Boolean )
System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. Th
is is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at alpr.Alpr.{ctor}(Alpr* , basic_string<char\,std::char_traits<char>\,std::a
llocator<char> >* , basic_string<char\,std::char_traits<char>\,std::allocator<ch
ar> >* , basic_string<char\,std::char_traits<char>\,std::allocator<char> >* )
at openalprnet.AlprNet..ctor(String country, String configFile, String runtim
eDir)
at AlprTest.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\Users\foo\Desktop\c#LPR\A
lprTest\Program.cs:line 25
One time, I also got part of another error message(not sure if its related or not) : Unable to load regex: @###@@
. Although the error above is pointing to the CTOR, I have, in my normal application, had it fail during the recognize call. I've also seen (not sure how accurate these stack traces are) it in openalprnet.AlprNet.Dispose(Boolean)
which was called from alpr.Alpr.{ctor}(...
My test program :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using openalprnet;
namespace AlprTest
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string chipPath = "71197e9d829d4d429e74a71c983380dc_09032015134103267.jpg";
string confPath = Path.GetFullPath(".\\openalpr.conf");
string runtimeDirPath = Path.GetFullPath(".\\runtime_data");
int i = 0;
while (true)
{
++i;
try
{
// Look at target velocity and pick a conf file to use.
//
AlprNet alpr = new AlprNet("us", confPath, runtimeDirPath);
if (!alpr.isLoaded())
{
return;
}
// Optionally apply pattern matching for a particular region
alpr.DefaultRegion = "va"; // was md
alpr.DetectRegion = true;
AlprResultsNet results = alpr.recognize(chipPath);
if (results.plates.Count < 1)
{
Console.WriteLine(" Iter ({1}) No Plates Found in image {0}", chipPath, i);
}
else
{
int j = 0;
foreach (var result in results.plates)
{
Console.WriteLine("Plate {0}: {1} result(s)", ++j, result.topNPlates.Count);
Console.WriteLine(" Processing Time: {0} msec(s)", result.processing_time_ms);
foreach (var plate in result.topNPlates)
{
Console.WriteLine(" - {0}\t Confidence: {1}\tMatches Template: {2}", plate.characters,
plate.overall_confidence, plate.matches_template);
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine("Exception caught in LPR processing. Ex={0}", ex);
return;
}
}
}
}
}
The program depends on the openalpr distribution and corresponding opencv dlls. openalpr-net.dll, liblept170.dll, opencv_core248.dll, opencv_features2d248.dll, opencv_ffmpeg248.dll, opencv_flann248.dll, opencv_highgui248.dll, opencv_imgproc248.dll, opencv_objdetect248.dll, opencv_video248.dll
. It also uses a runtime_data directory (which I simply copied from the sample app) which seems to contain training data and such.
So, obviously, I'm using C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0
I'm assuming that I'm using OpenALPR wrong and that there is, in fact, nothing wrong with it. This would seem to be a pretty basic function. Aside from fixing it... why does this crash my program and how can I catch this and recover? You notice my try-catch totally fails to catch it and it crashes the whole application.
EDIT : While running the test app, it starts with like 2gig of memory, but it just grows and grows and grows. It crashed with 7.7 gig after 147 loops.
EDIT EDIT : Added in call to Dispose after each iteration and now the program sits pretty steady at 50-75 megs of memory.