Alerts for any wildlife possible?

[105437]

Using the built-in AI, is it possible to get AI confirmed alerts for any wildlife? Would like something more general instead of dog, cat etc. Thanks

 

[tigerwillow1]

What's you context? On camera detection, NVR detection, BI, etc?

 

[TheDogee]

There is a label "wildlife", but not sure what it includes

 

[105437]

What's you context? On camera detection, NVR detection, BI, etc?

Context is using the BI built in AI.

 

[tigerwillow1]

Context is using the BI built in AI.

OK. I'm not able to help and hope others do. I'm seeking the same information. When I set up BI a couple of years ago, I included CPAI, with high hopes for animal detection. The setup I had wasn't very stable, requiring a reboot every couple of days, and I walked away from it. Without the CPAI, the BI machine runs indefinitely without reboots, and hopefully that same stability will carry over with the built-in AI. I'm currently relying on Dahua IVS for animal triggers. Most of the newer cameras have human/vehicle detection that can't be turned off, and they do a very good job at never triggering on animals. The very newest -PRO and -IL cameras have animal detection which in my experience is not reliable, in that they often don't detect clearly visible animals in the FOV. So I how do I detect animals? The majority of my cameras have "dumb" IVS, without any type of object detection. They are very reliable at detecting animals, as well a blowing grass, trees and shadows. On windy days I get hundreds of false triggers that easily buries the genuine animal/people/vehicle triggers. The only saving grace is how it's possible to scan the triggers at one to two seconds each with UI3.

 

[TheDogee]

I have had marginal success working around the Dahua cam IVS limitations on the IP4K-T by using the BI based motion detection, which is more primitive just looking for motion, and using AI to confirm the many alerts it produces, using the "wildlife" label in the To Confirm box under camera AI settings. This works for dog, cat, bird and occasionally a possum or deer. Often the wildlife is misidentified as one of the above, so I am concerned that some are probably getting filtered away. It takes some tuning of the BI motion settings to detect smaller items with too many false triggers. Obviously consumes CPU cycles to have BI process the camera images, so will not scale to a large setup, I currently have 4 cameras set this way using OpenVino yolov11m model with face recognition turned off (because I don't need it). I have also played with the new Continuous AI scan as an option instead of BI motion detection, but that is generally not as good so far and more resource intensive. I am also no expert in any of the above, just hacking my way through it.

 

[Bruce_H]

In BI there is a file located at "C:\BlueIris\AI\models\coco.names"
here is the contents that list all of the objects that BI detects at the moment, to the best of my knowledge this can not be added too, but items can be disabled by adding a "-" in front of the object name. here is the contents of mine, there are a number of animals listed, some of which may not be very usefull at your location!
person
bicycle
car
motorbike
-aeroplane
bus
-train
truck
-boat
-traffic light
-fire hydrant
-stop sign
-parking meter
-bench
bird
cat
dog
-horse
-sheep
-cow
-elephant
-bear
-zebra
-giraffe
-backpack
-umbrella
-handbag
-tie
-suitcase
-frisbee
-skis
-snowboard
-sports ball
-kite
-baseball bat
-baseball glove
-skateboard
-surfboard
-tennis racket
-bottle
-wine glass
-cup
-fork
-knife
-spoon
-bowl
-banana
-apple
-sandwich
-orange
-broccoli
-carrot
-hot dog
-pizza
-donut
-cake
-chair
-sofa
-pottedplant
-bed
-diningtable
-toilet
-tvmonitor
-laptop
-mouse
-remote
-keyboard
-cell phone
-microwave
-oven
-toaster
-sink
-refrigerator
-book
-clock
-vase
-scissors
-teddy bear
-hair drier
-toothbrush