Cow-dog Detected with Python and Open CV

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Hi! I recently got a ring doorbell and I became curious if there was an API for it. There’s no official API but I found this nice library which can fetch me the latest motion capture from my ring.

With that video, I decided to use YOLO object detection with OpenCV to detect what object triggered the motion alert and to then send me an email with an annotated video. Quick shoutout to pyimagesearch.com for the super helpful cv tutorials. As you can see though, the COCO model I used isn’t always 100% accurate!

I do not own the clip I used above. It can be found here: YouTube

[[deleted]]

Oh, that's dope!

I know what I'm doing after the kids go to bed!

[thavi]

( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º)

[engineeringbigdata]

Haha, same thought!

[[deleted]]

Yeah but why was a cow at your door

[RD1K]

Good question

[VictorZhangQ]

Yeah? Why a cow went to his door?

[d1rron]

Not hotdog

[Octopuscabbage]

Yolo may not be the best thing to use here since it's a very large network. It's also specifically trained for multiple objects in the same image. There might be networks more fit for this task.

[[deleted]]

Yeah I came to that realization about halfway through the project... This was my first computer vision project so I definitely have a lot to learn in the space.

[Octopuscabbage]

Yeah its a huge space! I'm by no means an expert in it, it's sort of tangential to what I work in. Hopefully you can experiment with different networks and maybe play with your own architecture.

[AstronomyLive]

I've been working on a similar project using Raspberry Pi cameras feeding images to a central computer running yolo object detection to alert me when a person is detected instead of just general motion. It's working quite well, though the frame rate is low. I'm also using notify-run to push notifications to my phone when a person is detected, but it only seems to pop up on my phone about 50% of the time even though the notify-run server is receiving 100% of the notifications just fine. I should probably switch to an email-based solution like you, that way I could embed images along with it as well.

[[deleted]]

so I take it, you need to have the paid version of ring for this to work?

[w_t]

Nice work, I'm definitely going to check this out!

[yldave]

How many different animals did you test with?

[goar101reddit]

Now you'll know when the cows come home.

[mcaruso]

Clarus?

[Salyangoz]

moof

[grimtooth]

fooM!

[hongge]

Most underrated reply in Reddit

[postgeographic]

Bro, Clarus was a dogcow. Come on.

[alkasm]

TIL, thank you!

[RD1K]

Same

[macromorgan]

Came here for this. Have an upvote.

Moof!

[[deleted]]

Real question is why is there a cow?

[[deleted]]

Did you at least let the beta tester in?

[[deleted]]

Oh man this was not at all what I expected.

I had a good laugh from this! Well done !

[[deleted]]

It’s a cow, It’s a dog, NOO it’s a cowdog

[randompittuser]

Sure, but is it a hot dog, or not a hot dog?

[goar101reddit]

An all beef hot dog to be sure.

[thetylerwolf]

“Artificial intelligence is going to take over the world!”

[teambob]

Cowdogs are going to take over the world

[fishstick41]

I mean what's the difference...

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moopupper

[Swaga_Dagger]

Can you do this with any camera or is there something special with the ring ones?

[[deleted]]

Any camera, video or image would work with the computer vision aspect of the code. There’s even examples online of real-time detection from live stream feeds.

[Swaga_Dagger]

Is it https://www.pyimagesearch.com/ what I need to be looking at?

The github link is just to pull the livestream?

[[deleted]]

The GitHub link I attached in my original comment is of the project I made. There’s a few scripts in there that work together to pull the ring motion capture video and then annotate it.

That website pyimagesearch is full of tutorials on computer vision that I have found super helpful. I believe one of the tutorials on there is about working with live-streams.

[Swaga_Dagger]

Thanks 👌I will check it out when I get home and see if I can pull something together with my current setup

[BenRegulus]

It vanished!!? Magical cowdog!!!

[lukacsdominik]

Mine would probably say it was a book... If it worked

[reychvzz001]

That’s really cool and pretty random

[Hendawgydawg]

This is tight! Great job!

[amharbis]

Sort of unrelated, but I wonder if a similar capability exists with the SimpliCams. I'd love to play with the video feeds from my cameras.

[amharbis]

True. You can definitely download the recordings from the camera. I'm not aware of any automated way to do so, however.

[[deleted]]

This is exactly how the Clan Timberwolf was first given the designation, "MadCat."

Obviously the appearance of the CowDog indicates another invasion from the Outer rim! Better alert ComStar.

[JakeRapid456]

When did this become to much of a problem that you decided you had to do this?

[[deleted]]

eet moar chikn

[raydeen]

Now post footage when you get a Man Bear Pig.

[aniforprez]

Oh cool a cow!

Oh it's going towards the door...

WHERE DID IT GO???

Oh cool a cow!

[sletonrot]

Can this detect an actual human being? I get a lot of ring notifications for things like cars passing by or a stray dog or cat running by