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BirdNET-Pi
A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, and 0W2 built on the TFLite version of BirdNET.
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A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, and 0W2 built on the TFLite version of BirdNET.
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13 sourcesBirdNET-Pi: A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi
1 points · Open discussionSee also https://app.birdweather.com/ which uses a community of stations using AI to match vocalizations with bird species. It was pretty easy to setup a Pi with a microphone using https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi to start identifying birds outside my place.
In Detect Migrating Birds with a Plastic Dish and a Cheap Microphonebirdnet runs on device https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi?tab=readme-ov-file
In A-BiRD uses Raspberry Pi to identify different species singing at the same timeCheck out BirdNET [1] and BirdWeather as well. BirdNET is from Cornell University and there's a version of it for the Raspberry Pi [2]. BirdWeather [3] combines all the publicly available BirdNET instances into a nifty map view.
[1] https://birdnet.cornell.edu/
[2]
https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi
[3] https://www.birdweather.com/
In AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songsBirdnet Pi [0] is a pretty populair ready to go solution for this also
[0] https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi
In Birdsong VisualizerI had https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi running last summer with great success. Might be worth a look.
In Can you understand bird? Test your recognition of calls and songsThe birders are super ahead of the curve. Check out this Rpi implementation of BirdNet: https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi
Some other options for low-cost backyard sound/biodiversity monitoring are:
https://www.openacousticdevices.info/
https://carbonrewild.com/
In Bioacoustics: Finding the Voices of Other SpeciesI just stood up a BirdNet-Pi[1] instance underneath my deck[2] and it's a super fun project. I designed a 3d printable enclosure[3] to mount an rpi in a bird-hut looking thing to try and keep the water off the device. I'm currently using a 4-mic array on a Seeed Respeaker hat which is notionally designed for far-field 360 pickup to be used on voice response devices (alexa et al). It works but it's not great, so next stunt is to try and build some more suitable microphone solutions[4].
It really is an interesting use of TensorFlow at the edge and the somewhat accidental side effect is that I'm learning the birdsongs of all the neighborhood birds which is an extra delight when I'm out and hearing their calls in the broader world.
[1] https://birdnetpi.com/
[2] https://i.imgur.com/xxugaVN.jpg
[3] https://i.imgur.com/ycLVD6u.png
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A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi
2 points · Open discussionthere's usually a simple apt-get behind that, but this is not the case. clearly they went through a we-dont-need-apt-just-for-this phase and things got out of hand. there's like a dozen scripts to handle installation of scripts, crons, services and to handle their lifecycle.
check this uninstall script https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/blob/main/scripts/...
they need someone to do their apt packaging like yesterday.
In BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and trackingThere are some mic suggestions discussed on the github page[0].
[0] https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/discussions/39
In BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking