How AI Protects My Garden from Rabbits
Rabbits were eating all of my vegetables. I decided to take a stand and implement a computer vision enabled system to automatically spook them away from my garden. My system is a Raspberry Pi-battery powered device that uses an object-detection model to detect rabbits and play a sound via a bluetooth speaker when a rabbit is detected.
Computer vision has so many applications bot h for industrial and personal use. For this project, we will explore using computer vision for personal use to build a rabbit detection model to create a rabbit deterrence system. In this tutorial you will learn how to:
To collect data, we will be using CC4.0 Licensed pictures from Google Images. To ensure that your model will detect the correct type of rabbit in your region, you will want to research the types of rabbits that appear in your area. For example, in North Texas where I live, there are many Eastern Cottontail Rabbits and therefore I will want to gather pictures for Eastern Cottontail Rabbits:
Alternatively, if you are planning to create a model based on Eastern Cottontail Rabbits, you may use the dataset used in this tutorial.
