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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

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Post by walrus01 »

mlrtime wrote: post #138
walrus01 wrote: post #137

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> Unifi exposes an RTSP feed for each camera Do you mean an RTSP audio only stream separate from the video+audio feed you might ingest to an NVR, or combined audio/video RTSP stream? Most manufacturers of security cameras with ordinary RTSP stream functions support provide both video and audio together. 'Frigate' for instance will auto detect audio stream on a reolink camera and it "just works" in the latest versions…

Unifi provides local RTSP streams in different resolutions, birdnet will happily take a rtsp and strip it's audio out for processing (ffmpeg?)

Have you had any difficulty with simultaneously retrieving >1 RTSP stream from the camera at a time, 24x7? Such as full resolution video/audio to a NVR for security purposes and then a second stream to birdnet?

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Post by detourdog »

sdenton4 wrote: post #90
detourdog wrote: post #56

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I have a situation with a couple of hundred chimney swifts. I want to set-up cameras to differentiate between individual swifts. Any advice on how to go about this. My current plan is to put multiple cameras at the mouth of the chimney opening which is about 42"x42"(1mx1m). Does this sound realistic to anyone with experience?

There's a growing literature on individual animal identification from sound! Here's one example: https://github.com/sammlapp/ovenbird-individual-recognition My impression is that the hardest part is knowing whether or not you're actually doing a good job. For vocal learners (like the ovenbird example linked above), it seems to be pretty easy using embeddings from existing models (like perch or birdnet). For non-learn…

I guess the first step is to install the cameras and see what I can figure out from there. I never thought about the perching or vocalizations as an identifier.

Thank you for bring this up.

Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

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Post by world2vec »

sahn44 wrote: post #148

This is a lot more wholesome than my project. I detect birds and automatically spray them with a sprinkler to keep away from pool area. code: https://github.com/mattsahn/bird-away Writeup: https://mattsahn.github.io/bird-away-blog/

My first ever "e2e" ML project during early covid quarantine was a crude vision model to detect pigeons on my balcony (and pigeons only) and play a loud random sound. It almost worked sometimes.

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Post by peddling-brink »

lukan wrote: post #149
sahn44 wrote: post #148

This is a lot more wholesome than my project. I detect birds and automatically spray them with a sprinkler to keep away from pool area. code: https://github.com/mattsahn/bird-away Writeup: https://mattsahn.github.io/bird-away-blog/

I guess you can combine it? Identify what the bird was you sprayed away ..

And measure reaction time, classify across species.

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Post by nephihaha »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #89
LIMEVINCE wrote: post #36

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I don't love it either, but it's better than the alternative of Peace President(tm) -- famous for strokes of genius such as "can't we just shoot [the protestors] in the legs"; asking the military to "shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs; and the masterful decision to deny Iran nuclear weapons by withdrawing from the JCPOA and joining Israel in waging an illegitimate war. Edit: Wow that's insane that yo…

It sounds like a "both sides" argument, which should indeed be flagged early and often. It's not, though. I'd still vote for her over the alternative the Republicans chose to offer to us (and did so). It was the only responsible thing to do.

The real both sides argument is that there are only two teams to pick from.

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Post by atestu »

sahn44 wrote: post #148

This is a lot more wholesome than my project. I detect birds and automatically spray them with a sprinkler to keep away from pool area. code: https://github.com/mattsahn/bird-away Writeup: https://mattsahn.github.io/bird-away-blog/

I've been meaning the same thing to stop deer from eating from my garden... would you do anything differently if you were to do it again?

Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

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Post by nephihaha »

oever wrote: post #69
jameshart wrote: post #62

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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.

Famously "koax koax koax" in classical Greek.
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