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OpenCV and the Wild Kingdom
Deploying a thermal camera and homebrew motion detection to catch a thief or three.
There’s no shortage of planes, birds, and bugs that can be seen in LWIR that might go unnoticed in the visible band, but staring at a computer waiting to see something isn’t how I like to spend my time. This manifests as odd playback speeds because the encoder expects N frames every second when in reality the script is supplying< N and the video plays back faster than real time. The cycle of refill-empty happened enough that I got curious about it and had considered throwing an old IP security camera in the closet to see who or what was stealing the food.
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