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Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Sure will do, mostly I've been training squirrel recognition models on my laptop and also learning what it takes to run those models on the raspberry pi (low frame rates) with OpenCV. I did also buy one of these though https://www.adafruit.com/product/997 so once I get everything running I may also have videos of squirrels being sprayed by the garden hose :)

That is awesome!

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please submit a post about this project, with juicy details!

Sure will do, mostly I've been training squirrel recognition models on my laptop and also learning what it takes to run those models on the raspberry pi (low frame rates) with OpenCV. I did also buy one of these though https://www.adafruit.com/product/997 so once I get everything running I may also have videos of squirrels being sprayed by the garden hose :)

If I may give some dog trainer advice, you are going to spend water and energy making some squirrels just a bit more challenged to the feat, consider just attracting the offending ones to elsewhere where they find some cheap/disposable food source so they let the chicken's alone :-) — this approach is usually cheaper and renders more results with dogs, cats and even chickens themselves! Say, once you detect them, you lure them to a certain path or place, maybe with some LEDs or scent or something you can automate dispensing (I don't known squirrels).

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Related: I recently came across the "Google AIY Voice Kit for Raspberry Pi" in the Adafruit store: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3602 That, as well as this new "AWS DeepLens", look like interesting kits/toys to try out new on-device and hosted systems for voice processing and computer vision. Then again, I assume you have to buy these knowing that the hardware will likely cease to work in the next year or two or t…

Well, with the Google AIY kit, as it's Raspberry Pi based, you have the ability to do what you want with the hardware. It's really just a microphone and speaker on top of it.

At some point you could run offline models to take voice input and output intent. What you then do with that is up to you. What the cloud services provide are common lookups, such as searching wikipedia, your calendars, etc. You'd need to implement that yourself.

AWS DeepLens seems to run Ubuntu 16.04 under the hood, but it's unknown whether you can get SSH access to it. If so, it's could be a really nice hackable camera on which you could run anything you want.

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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This is great for my chicken coop project :) I have been working with a raspberry pi and camera to train a system to recognize and respond to squirrels (close the feeder to stop them eating food). There are many other options to build this, but it is nice that this is an integrated system that is easy to train!

Nice! I bet you could start a business with this if you get it robust. I have been thinking about a bird feeder that works only for birds below a certain weight like hummingbirds. We often have crows taking our feeder apart.

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Shameless related plug : We recently developed a deep-learning powered 2-axis-gimbal for a webcam : https://github.com/GistNoesis/Linn-Photobooth . We do use deep-learning either for deep-art or for pose tracking. I guess we can probably control the gimbal with this new camera though I'm not sure It will be able to process deep art. In my other usages, usually I have multiple cheap webcams with cheap board (IP cams or other) streaming it (over wifi/ethernet) to the GPU processing station located somewhere. With powerful GPU boards at €650, it's probably a better strategy once you start having plenty of cams.

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product? If I had to guess, this is going to be a great "user education" tool for AWS, designed to get new developers on the platform as early in the learning process as possible.

Because they open everything they develop and in this case they want to see innovations happen around their new home cameras! Which they use already with deliveries.

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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post #10

This is great for my chicken coop project :) I have been working with a raspberry pi and camera to train a system to recognize and respond to squirrels (close the feeder to stop them eating food). There are many other options to build this, but it is nice that this is an integrated system that is easy to train!

I would really like a camera that would log when deer, or other wildlife aside from squirrels, are in my backyard.
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