Each night I run an automated #insect light here in Canberra using a #RaspberryPi, Logitech BRIO #webcam, UV LEDs and #OpenCV image segmentation. Some example images from the night of 3/4 November: Porela delineata (#Lasiocampidae), Stenoptilia zophodactylus (#Pterophoridae), Thallarcha partita (#Erebidae, #Arctiinae) and Exaireta spinigera (#Stratiomyidae).
My hope is to build a large enough set of identified images to attempt to train a #model and move towards automated #timeseries capture.
@hikinghack Great! Mine are based on a design published last year by a team of computer scientists and #ecologists from Aarhus, Denmark.
The one that runs every night is a mains-powered Raspberry Pi 4 using #motion detection.
I also have a battery-powered Raspberry Pi Zero version that takes #timelapse images every 20 seconds. I leave that in the fieldovernight.
Both work well, but the number of images can be overwhelming in the middle of the summer.
More at https://amt.hobern.net/.
@dhobern rad!
We have been making good progress with a small portable battery powered pi4+ 64mp arducam! Will post more details when we can!
Donald Hobern
Andy Quitmeyer