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Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

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Re: Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

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Post by llamataboot »

I backed this back in the fall for a winter ship date, so I'd take the June ship date with a grain of salt.

Not quite as long as my Mycroft kickstarter which shipped a full 2.5 years after expected shipping (but they DID ship so kudos to them) but yeah, hardware etc seems to always hit way more snags then expected

Re: Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

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Post by TheSkyHasEyes »

spicybright wrote: post #9
ajsharp wrote: post #2

Have been desperately wanting something like this so I can build an AI to detect when people don't pick up their dog shit in front of my gate. I am saved.

If you're serious, please do a write up. I'm sure TONS of people would appreciate a project like this.

Seconded. If they built and blogged about this it would go viral I would think. :)

Re: Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

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Post by ajsharp »

spicybright wrote: post #9
ajsharp wrote: post #2

Have been desperately wanting something like this so I can build an AI to detect when people don't pick up their dog shit in front of my gate. I am saved.

If you're serious, please do a write up. I'm sure TONS of people would appreciate a project like this.

Oh I'm dead serious. I want it to play an audio file when it detects a dog shit: "Thank you for kindly picking up your dog shit."

Re: Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

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Post by jjeaff »

ajsharp wrote: post #2

Have been desperately wanting something like this so I can build an AI to detect when people don't pick up their dog shit in front of my gate. I am saved.

Just get a fake camera with a light and put it in an obvious place so everyone that walks by notices they are being filmed.

Re: Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

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Post by codezero »

Aea wrote: post #8

How does this compare to the OAK-1 and OAK-D from opencv.ai?

Not sure, but at a glance it seems the OAK models are for developers to build up their entire use case from scratch, the Vizy _I think_ is pretrained with a lot of object recognition and has some tooling to take action based on that stuff built-in. So more of a purpose built device with some existing tooling vs an open-ended developer device that you bake the full product out yourself.

Re: Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

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Post by helsinki »

If you throw in a classifier for detecting dog poop, and ideally, urine, I will buy five of them, place them around my home, and ensure the floors are clean before sending an API call to start my robotic vacuum. Thank you.

Edit: there is a market! https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26916974&goto=item%3Fi...

Re: Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

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Post by neartheplain »

guymcgwire wrote: post #10

Love this. Moving to CM4 will make the form factor even better. If you're interested, here's an AI camera paired with a steerable hyperdirectional speaker that uses the Raspberry Pi and Google Coral: https://www.toutaudio.com/

"The technology to deliver targeted audio messages in stores didn't exist. So we invented it."

Bastards. /s

Re: Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

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Post by nshm »

Well, you can do some basic things with this but honestly RPi4 is pretty much underpowered CPU for any serious AI. You can run some optimized networks probably even 200 fps like TinyYOLO linked below but it will always be a tradeoff between accuracy and hardware capabilities.

If you want AI you'd better consider Jetson or figure out some other DNN accelerator.

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