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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
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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
machine learning has been used to identify bird calls for a while now, it's more of a classifier than a content generator, so it identifies calls and provides a confidence level
while it's not perfect it's not really producing hallucinations of pterodactyls or anything like that
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#163Good reminder to slow down
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#164Btw, Merlin Bird ID app by Cornell University is so good that I got some people interested that weren't into that topic at all.
I call it Pokemon Go for grown ups. How many do you have in your life list? I finally managed to snag a Tawny Owl last week.
Tawny owls make so many different noises. The classic sound is two, one calls and one answers but they are very chatty with different sounds. They live all around, but never seen one.
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#165This is awesome! I just asked Hermes to deploy it for me at home and it's already listing some interesting birds.
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#167Have been running BirdNet-Go on a Rpi3 with a Jabra Speak 510 device which has omni-directional mic array, along with rtsp audio from two outdoor security cameras, for the last 2 months. Excellent sound pickup quality. 76K detections and 112 species detected.
I live in the east coast of Singapore near changi airport, and also run FlightTracker on another Rpi3 with a cheap RTL-SDR dongle with a 1090 mhz antenna to receive real-time aircraft broadcasts/squawks.
So essentially tracking 2 different types of 'birds'.
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#169This 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 am deeply moved by your anti-bird crusade xD
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