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+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+import numpy as np
+from frigate.config import DetectorTypeEnum
+import frigate.object_detection
+
+
+class TestLocalObjectDetector(unittest.TestCase):
+    @patch("frigate.object_detection.EdgeTpuTfl")
+    @patch("frigate.object_detection.CpuTfl")
+    def test_localdetectorprocess_given_type_cpu_should_call_cputfl_init(
+        self, mock_cputfl, mock_edgetputfl
+    ):
+        test_obj = frigate.object_detection.LocalObjectDetector(
+            det_type=DetectorTypeEnum.cpu, model_path="/test/modelpath", num_threads=6
+        )
+
+        assert test_obj is not None
+        mock_edgetputfl.assert_not_called()
+        mock_cputfl.assert_called_once_with(model_path="/test/modelpath", num_threads=6)
+
+    @patch("frigate.object_detection.EdgeTpuTfl")
+    @patch("frigate.object_detection.CpuTfl")
+    def test_localdetectorprocess_given_type_edgtpu_should_call_edgtpu_init(
+        self, mock_cputfl, mock_edgetputfl
+    ):
+        test_obj = frigate.object_detection.LocalObjectDetector(
+            det_type=DetectorTypeEnum.edgetpu,
+            det_device="usb",
+            model_path="/test/modelpath",
+        )
+
+        assert test_obj is not None
+        mock_cputfl.assert_not_called()
+        mock_edgetputfl.assert_called_once_with(
+            det_device="usb", model_path="/test/modelpath"
+        )
+
+    @patch("frigate.object_detection.CpuTfl")
+    def test_detect_raw_given_tensor_input_should_return_api_detect_raw_result(
+        self, mock_cputfl
+    ):
+        TEST_DATA = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
+        TEST_DETECT_RESULT = np.ndarray([1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32])
+        test_obj_detect = frigate.object_detection.LocalObjectDetector(
+            det_device=DetectorTypeEnum.cpu
+        )
+
+        mock_det_api = mock_cputfl.return_value
+        mock_det_api.detect_raw.return_value = TEST_DETECT_RESULT
+
+        test_result = test_obj_detect.detect_raw(TEST_DATA)
+
+        mock_det_api.detect_raw.assert_called_once_with(tensor_input=TEST_DATA)
+        assert test_result is mock_det_api.detect_raw.return_value
+
+    @patch("frigate.object_detection.CpuTfl")
+    @patch("frigate.object_detection.load_labels")
+    def test_detect_given_tensor_input_should_return_lfiltered_detections(
+        self, mock_load_labels, mock_cputfl
+    ):
+        TEST_DATA = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
+        TEST_DETECT_RAW = [
+            [2, 0.9, 5, 4, 3, 2],
+            [1, 0.5, 8, 7, 6, 5],
+            [0, 0.4, 2, 4, 8, 16],
+        ]
+        TEST_DETECT_RESULT = [
+            ("label-3", 0.9, (5, 4, 3, 2)),
+            ("label-2", 0.5, (8, 7, 6, 5)),
+        ]
+        TEST_LABEL_FILE = "/test_labels.txt"
+        mock_load_labels.return_value = [
+            "label-1",
+            "label-2",
+            "label-3",
+            "label-4",
+            "label-5",
+        ]
+
+        test_obj_detect = frigate.object_detection.LocalObjectDetector(
+            det_device=DetectorTypeEnum.cpu, labels=TEST_LABEL_FILE
+        )
+
+        mock_load_labels.assert_called_once_with(TEST_LABEL_FILE)
+
+        mock_det_api = mock_cputfl.return_value
+        mock_det_api.detect_raw.return_value = TEST_DETECT_RAW
+
+        test_result = test_obj_detect.detect(tensor_input=TEST_DATA, threshold=0.5)
+
+        mock_det_api.detect_raw.assert_called_once_with(tensor_input=TEST_DATA)
+        assert test_result == TEST_DETECT_RESULT