Vizy cam training

An attempt to train vizycam with UK birds + animals

Data sets :

• https://github.com/visipedia/inat_comp/tree/master/2021

Included are :

10 most common UK birds :

• House Sparrow ✔️
• Blue Tit ✔️
• European Starling ✔️
• Eurasian Blackbird ✔️
• Wood Pigeon ✔️
• European Robin ✔️
• Great Tit ✔️
• Eurasian Goldfinch ✔️
• Eurasian Magpie ✔️
• Long-tailed Tit ✔️

Extra birds ( seen in my garden ) :

• Red Kite ✔️
• Grey Heron ✔️
• Blackcap ✔️
• Redwing ✔️
• Eurasian Green Woodpecker ✔️
• Eurasian Collared Dove ✔️

Common garden animals :

• Common Hedgehog ✔️
• Red Fox ✔️
• Eastern Gray Squirrel ✔️
• Domestic Cat ✔️
• Brown Rat ✔️
• Person ✔️

Weeds :

• Common Dandelion ✔️

( ✔️ indicates bounding boxes created )

Tensor flow on mac :

• https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos

Models :

• https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/g3doc/tf2_detection_zoo.md

Other links :

• https://tensorflow-object-detection-api-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/training.html
• https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/images/classification
• http://download.tensorflow.org/models/object_detection/tf2/20210210/centernet_mobilenetv2fpn_512x512_coco17_od.tar.gz
• https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/colab_tutorials/eager_few_shot_od_training_tf2_colab.ipynb
• https://neptune.ai/blog/how-to-train-your-own-object-detector-using-tensorflow-object-detection-api

To run on mac intel :

./install-tensorflow.bash
. Tensorflow/tf2_api_env/bin/activate
./data-prep.py
./train.py

To run on mac M1 :

./install-tensorflow-macos-m1.sh
conda activate tensorflow
./data-prep.py
./train2.py

Directories used :

• Tensorflow - installed tensorflow binaries
• train - training dataset download directory
• val - training dataset download directory
• boundingbox - source of bounding box data
• images/training - training images ready to be used
• images/validation - validation images ready to be used
• models - tensorflow models and where training happens