Deer Detection with Machine Learning Part 4

Posted on Fri 31 October 2014 in Wildlife Detection • Tagged with deer, machine_learning

It’s time again for another episode of “Murderous Deer Machine Learning Mayhem”. Last time, I used a neural network to detect raccoons, since they frequented my backyard more often in the early days. In that post, my preliminary results revealed an accuracy (F1 measure) of approximately 72%. In this …


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Deer Detection with Machine Learning Part 3

Posted on Sun 14 September 2014 in Wildlife Detection • Tagged with deer, machine_learning

This is it! This is the post where I talk about the Machine Learning component in my Deer Detector. Have no idea what I’m talking about? Check out my other blog posts here and here for some background information about the project.

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Deer Detection with Machine Learning Part 2

Posted on Sat 23 August 2014 in Wildlife Detection • Tagged with deer, machine_learning

Last time I wrote about building a simple Java program to take pictures of my backyard to keep track of those murderous deer that infest our backyard. To recap, I want to use machine learning to teach a computer to recognize that this is a deer:

The Deer

And teach the computer …


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Deer Detection with Machine Learning Part 1

Posted on Mon 04 August 2014 in Wildlife Detection • Tagged with deer, machine_learning

So, I have a deer who visits my yard. The deer wants to murder me and eat all of my vegetables. Well, the deer probably doesn't really want to murder me, but it probably does want to eat all of the vegetables that we have in our garden. When we …


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