Hello
I am not a scientist. I am looking to collaborate with someone or a group who understands how to integrate live photo animal identification into a mechanical devise to open and close a gates. The purpose of this would be to contain dommestic livestock while allowing large animals such as Elk and Bear to pass exclusionary fences at will unimpeded.
Elk in the fence.pdf11 December 2023 6:14pm
I have a project that can integrate custom events triggered by AI models and then activate external events such as relays. Out of the box it could do a good good at detect bears and opening the gate. An elk looks very much like a deer. My project is integrated with deepfaune that detects deer I’m willing to bet it would see an elk as a deer. I can test that pretty easily. I’ll get back to you on that.
I assume that because you talked about opening a gate that power is available ?
My project is completed by but is waiting for me to finish the install script for the latest version of the NVidia Jetson hardware.
My project is here:
But feel free to reach out for a conference call if this interests you.
I’ll test some elk images with my deepfaune integration over the coming days and post the results.
11 December 2023 6:46pm
Bighorn sheep are identified as Mouflons:
So based on a question to chatgpt about large animals in California, we only need to find something to match mountain lions to be complete I think. It can detect wild boar and I don't think we need to worry about whales (Okay, I didn't tell chat it hand to be on land).
11 December 2023 7:38pm
An alternative way of doing this if they are your livestock would be to RFID tag the cattle then have a detector near the gate that closes when they are near.
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Lars Holst Hansen
Aarhus University
12 December 2023 5:08pm
The concept (based on image recognition) was actually mentioned (as an april's fool joke) by a Danish Engineering Paper in Danmark some years ago:
They had made up a convincing story about how the fence put up in order to limit the movement of wild boars from Germany (in order to limit spread of diseases to Danish pig farms) needed gates to allow for the natural migration of wolves. They even had a link to a scientific paper on face detection in lemurs on Madagascar:
Kim Hendrikse