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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
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Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you found a way to identify frogs? I also have a BirdNET (the older -PI, not -Go) setup, but haven't seen a way to get anything other than birds identified.
The many frogs around my house are identified as black-crowned night heron. I was very excited for a while since that bird is not common where I live.
OHHHH! That explains it. Had not figured out why that false detection kept coming up.
Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
#63Really cool! The fart detector was a hilarious bonus
Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
#64Btw, Merlin Bird ID app by Cornell University is so good that I got some people interested that weren't into that topic at all.
But a warning for novice birders: Merlin's sound ID feature produces a lot of false positives.
Merlin got me into birding, and I've found this to be true, at least in some regions, especially if there's lots of background noise.
Unless a species has a really, really unique call or song, I've made it my personal rule to get eyes on it and, if I'm still not convinced, to take a picture and cross reference with iNaturalist and what folks on there think of it.
I've learned to curse the species that differ from others by the sheen of the backs of the males' necks or the angle of a wingbar. Also, gulls that only differ by things like the color of their feet or beaks.
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#65I love this, much better than AngryBirds. Truly an amazing idea!
Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
#66how confident is it in the identification? i imagine sometimes the angle is or resolution is bad and it may detect a bird but not have a lot to go off of to say what kind. does it narrow the list down or just make a guess?
It looks like they are using audio. Even with poor audio on my phone I find that it works very well. Once in a blue moon I'll get an ID I am doubtful of from BirdNet but it's rare in my experience.
but the thing with AI is that it excels in creating things we would not doubt, regardless of the truth. in particular, i find it to be susceptible to avoiding doubt at the expense of truth.
though i would be hopeful for bird audio, as differentiating their calls is something the birds themselves excel at, so it could very well be a great usecase for ai
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#67I run BirdNET-Go as an app on my Home Assistant i7 M710q. I use the GPU-enabled BirdNET model and Perch V2, and it works swimmingly. Input is three RTSP streams from various Reolink PoE cameras around our house, and it is pretty cool to be able to find and listen to the birds/frogs that come.
Have you found a way to identify frogs? I also have a BirdNET (the older -PI, not -Go) setup, but haven't seen a way to get anything other than birds identified.
The full Perch V2 model at https://huggingface.co/tphakala/Perch-v2 can do some frogs and cicadas and such, but it is not very good. It will certainly detect it, whether the species will be right is a whole other question.
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#68I just turned my PTZ security camera into a VAR booth for my kid. Lawn (soccer) / Driveway (Floorball) / End. Live view, step back 10s, slowmo, frame step, scrubbing.
GLM 5.3 helped to root my camera so I could get proper endpoints for PTZ and stream. Claude built the api and frontend, hosted on Home Assistant.
Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
The many frogs around my house are identified as black-crowned night heron. I was very excited for a while since that bird is not common where I live.
OHHHH! That explains it. Had not figured out why that false detection kept coming up.
The sound that a frog makes is 'kwak' in Dutch. And that is also the name of this bird which makes a similar sound. Onomatopoeia for the frog predator.
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#70Cool project!
Inspired by AvianVisitors [1] I made a similar project [2] with an android app for bird detection using Perch, and then displays the birds detected during the last 24 hours with nice art on a samsung frame tv in "art mode".
If you dont want to repurpose an old android device, my app also supports bird detections from birdnet-go and birdweather. It should be plug and play with this project.
Have a look at [1] https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/ [2] https://github.com/simenf/birdframe