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Cats, Pi, and Machine Learning
- asadawadia 4y agoThere is a cat that wanders around my neighbourhood. I wanted to build something that would notify me whenever it came to my backyard. The post describes what I did
- johnklos 4y agoCurious: Why? Do you want to feed it? Shoo it away? Get to know it? Avoid letting your cat out when it's around?
- asadawadia 4y agoGood karma mainly
- asadawadia 4y agoThis comment might be confusing - I misread what the question was I feed the cat for good karma The picture stuff was to get a notification to tell when it was coming to eat
- e40 4y agoI would do this to make friends. There's a really friendly cat I see about once a week. I'm sure he's around more.
- Darky 4y agoWritten in a non-emotional, detached, and non-sensational style. I was even wondering if it was written by chatGPT
- samus 4y agoOur culture must have fallen quite far if we can't expect that from human writers anymore!
- politelemon 4y agoNicely done, I like the straightforward dedicated nature of the project. Even years after the Raspberry Pi has been out I still enjoy reading how people use it. I suppose the cat factor does play a role in it though.
- emielvanseveren 4y agoReminds of this post of someone who added a camera to the little cat door because the cat kept bringing 'gifts' (mice) indoors. He used ML to detect if the cat brought a gift. In that case he temporarily locked it.
- voakbasda 4y agoNot sure if it is the same project, but I remember something like that from a long time ago. The cat would walk through a backlit tunnel and project a black and white silhouette of its profile onto a low res camera. They used a very simple neural network to do the detection. Several example pictures were included in the write up, showing the cat normally, one where it was holding a mouse, as well as a profile of a possum (IIRC). Replicating those results has been on my to-do list for over a decade.
- telesilla 4y agoThe cat, for which I read the post: https://imgur.com/a/vYs1W1L https://imgur.com/a/vYs1W1L
- vavooom 4y agoGreat project! I have wanted to do something similar with my hummingbird feeder to determine what time of day the birds tend to visit most often.
- asadawadia 4y agoGo for it! You can piggy back on my object detection api - it can detect birds - just tried with the image => https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1520638023360-6def43369781?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxzZWFyY2h8M3x8aHVtbWluZ2JpcmR8ZW58MHx8MHx8&w=1000&q=80 https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1520638023360-6def43369781... Request example => https://pastebin.com/1Wnyb6PD https://pastebin.com/1Wnyb6PD
- n_syd 4y agoI am trying to build something similar with my raspberry pi - but with a temperature detector sensor. Btw well written, just how a tech article should be, no fluff and to the point!