Inspiration
We noticed that many pet lovers are afraid to let their small pets out of their cages, such as birds and lizards. Their main concern of letting their pets out unsupervised is they might disappear. Just imagine you let your bird out when you go out and couldn't find them anywhere when you got back. They might be chilling on the top of the shelf. They might be hidden under your bed and you can accidentally crash it. We can totally sympathize with the frustration, so we wanted to help pet lovers to always know where their pets are. Even tiny ones.
What it does
It keeps track of the location of pets and keeps track of their last seen location if they go out of sight.
How we built it
We used TensorFlow model to detect common pets. We built an android app to help users see their pet's location and google cloud storage is used to store the images.
Challenges we ran into
- Setting up the environment to train our model was extremely difficult with outdated sources online. ##Accomplishments that we're proud of
- First Hackathon with ai based machine vision
- Getting Google cloud API to work
- Done in 36 hr ##What's next for Patronus Pet Cam
- Deploy our setup to an AI-based camera to acquire better image quality and viewing angle.
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