bird recognition software?

[Isaac]

Is there software that can try and identify birds that cross its camera?

[Heretic]

Is there software that can try and identify birds that cross its camera?

Did you try this

[CDN_Merlin]

Just buy a Filed Guide book and use that. It's better as you get to learn the birds. I've been doing bird photography for about 5 yrs and I'm pretty good at knowing what species are in my area.

[Isaac]

Is there software that can try and identify birds that cross its camera?

Did you try this

Did you?

[Isaac]

Just buy a Filed Guide book and use that. It's better as you get to learn the birds. I've been doing bird photography for about 5 yrs and I'm pretty good at knowing what species are in my area.

Nothing compares to the human brain for this kind of task, but I was just wondering if it was even possible for a computer. I don't think it really is.

[Sirius]

It absolutely is, but it might not have been done yet. This is the kind of thing neural networks tend to be good at, as long as you can work out the right features to look at.

[Isaac]

Yeah, if there was one bird body part a robot could zoom in on, to identify the bird type, maybe something like that could work.

The reason I bring it up is that there's a national bird count going into effect and birders are asked to go count what birds they see in their area, then report the findings. So I'm wondering if they have a system that can count birds in your back yard all day, even if you don't have time to watch them.

On a side note, I'm sure a similar system could watch our borders coupled with fatial recognition. That way border patrol has a face and maybe a name and a record.

I bet I could have Python use an app that finds patterns in images. Meh.. better people than me are working on that...

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[Jeff250]

Visual pattern matching is hard for computers.

[Sirius]

On a side note, I'm sure a similar system could watch our borders coupled with fatial recognition. That way border patrol has a face and maybe a name and a record.

Bingo. Facial recognition isn't a much different problem. As far as I understand, the way it works is that the algorithm does some image processing to figure out the positions and size of the main features, and compares what it sees with the records it has in a database (likely using some fuzzy comparison, since images are never really an exact thing). There are a few other things you'd need to take into account to identify birds (on the flip-side it might help a bit that you're trying to determine the species, not individual animals) but the problem, and approach to solving it, is of a relatively similar nature.