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Eye On Intelligence Challenge - a Birds-Eye view - Introduction and Project Planning

rsc

My objective for this project is to develop a smart bird feeder video system that uses the Arty Z7 to capture images and identify the birds that visit my back porch.  I've built a similar device for capturing pictures of Halloween trick-or-treaters using a raspberry pi as the main controller.

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https://www.hackster.io/r-scott-coppersmith/halloween-of-things-hot-and-your-little-internet-too-3a2c7b

I've found several smart bird feeders online, however, they are mostly doorbell cameras stuffed into a feeder.  There are a few security cameras available with some sort of face recognition software, but mostly to recognize the difference between a person at the door, or a dog running past the camera.  The field of view and focus on these cameras can be a limitation.

The project outline looks like this:

- Physical Hardware

 - - Design a weather resistant enclosure for the Arty Z7, camera, and power supply

 - - Determine location for camera with good field of view and shielded from severe weather and other critters (squirrels and racoons)

 - Software

 - - Install latest AMD Vivado and Vitis

 - - Generate bitstream for Arty Z7 PL for USB/HDMI video and other interesting I/O using AMD Vivado and Vitis

 - - Install petalinux and pynq on Arty Z7 PS

 - - Develop image capture routine

 - - Develop image recognition routines

 - - Develop bird recognition routines

 - - Develop image database and bird database

 - - Develop servo control for Pan and Tilt functions if time allows to enable scanning

   This is a bird:

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This is a hummingbird:

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This is not a bird:

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A fear that the hummingbirds will be leaving for the warm southern states by the time I finish this project, however, the more common birds should stick around for a while.  If there are no birds to see, I will use some man-made versions for testing.

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  • Interesting project.  I have often thought about doing something similar, so it will be interesting to see where you go with this.

    We currently have 5 seed feeders in our yard.  We have struggled with plenty of non-bird visitors (squirrels and raccoons).  It would be nice to capture images of the birds keep track of them.

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  • Interesting project.  I have often thought about doing something similar, so it will be interesting to see where you go with this.

    We currently have 5 seed feeders in our yard.  We have struggled with plenty of non-bird visitors (squirrels and raccoons).  It would be nice to capture images of the birds keep track of them.

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