This is really great – you’re not afraid to get your hands a bit dirty and you have a cool application that you want to create. Coco isn’t going to give you what you want, unfortunately. There’s a really good image resource of labeled images provided by iNaturalist. It has hundreds of labeled images of each common plant and animal species. With these images and a decent guide, you can create your own detection networks. We took images from the iNaturalist database (the 20 most common North American bird species) to create the birdfeeder detection network.
In a future Vizy software release and help from our how-to documentation, you’ll be able to grab the labeled images from this database and create your own CNN for detection/classification of practically anything you want (plant or animal). We’ll also have a way for you train on a cloud-hosted processor.
In the meantime, we’re happy to answer any questions that come up in when writing Vizy code (given the sparse documentation of the vizy/kritter APIs)
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