Selective ignorance

[jdegugl1]

I’m hopeful that wyze is working on a AI feature that would allow us to select a recurring annoyance motion object and remove it from detection.

[Omgitstony]

@jdegugl1

select a recurring annoyance motion object

For clarification, can you give an example of these objects? Is the object in different areas of the view? Or the same spot? Would the existing selectable detection zone work?

[jdegugl1]

I should have mentioned these are pan cams. They are obsessed with every moving fixed object. When in scan mode they get fixed on an object and forget to scan. One object is a palm tree, AI identifies it as a pet. On another pan cam in our pool area it gets stuck watching the water ripples and forgets to scan. If I turn off panning I can’t see the entire area, if I turn off tracking it won’t follow an intruder. I hope this clarifies it for you. Thanks

Another pan cam in my family room locks in on our ceiling fan. I can walk right by it and it doesn’t see me.

[Omgitstony]

@jdegugl1

I should have mentioned these are pan cams

More details are better, yes,

@jdegugl1

When in scan mode the get fixed on an object and forget to scan.

So you have motion tracking AND pan scan enabled?

@jdegugl1

One object is a palm tree, AI identifies it as a pet.

What else is in view in the event? The way the recognized object tagging works on the server end, the AI looks at the entire view for objects that it recognizes and if any are seen, it tags the event as such. The detected motion isn’t necessarily what the AI recognized and tagged. Recognize objects can be either moving or stationary, somewhere in frame.

@jdegugl1

If I turn off panning I can’t see the entire area, if I tun off tracking it won’t follow an intruder.

For this use case, I’d recommend multiple fixed cameras with overlapping coverage coving the area of importance. I have several pan cams and eventually only ever used them as glorified fixed cameras as I disabled the motion tracking and pan scanning. I left them in use because if I wanted to manually scan around I could, but added another camera to get 100% coverage of an area.

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Also, you should check out the Wishlist as it looks like your request is covered by a couple existing topics:

Direction/Motion Limits For Wyze Cam Pan Tracking

Our motion tracking is not quite as accurate as we would like and we’re working on that. In the meantime, adding direction limits to Wyze Cam Pan will help prevent the camera from overshooting and getting focused on an area that the owner doesn’t care about watching (or would rather not prioritize). This would also add the ability to prevent Wyze Cam Pan from looking at televisions or areas of the room considered to be more private (like the bed area in a bedroom). Best, WyzeGwendolyn

Motion Algorithm to Ignore Blowing Leaves/Shadows/Bugs/Snow/Rain/Headlights/Flags

There are many motion events that are simply tree branch blowing in the wind (both the leaves and their shadows). I imagine it would be possible to have the motion detection algorithm distinguish between a true person/animal motion (one box moving through the frame) and leaves/shadows (many small boxes that are scattered & inconsistent from frame to frame). Thanks! [Mod Edit: Person detection was launched on 7/9/19. Animal detection is being considered for the future.] [Mod Edit: This post i…

[carverofchoice]

Something I think that might solve this would be…instead of telling it what to ignore, just tell it what kind of thing to track (and thus ignore everything else). So a sort of Whitelist solution instead of a blacklist solution:

Give a pan camera local/edge AI detection and then have an option to make it only track selected AI objects. Anything else can be ignored (branches/foliage, flag, whatever). If we could tell it to only track a person or pet, that would be fantastic!

Track Only AI Motion For Cam Pan V1, V2, and V3

The track motion feature of the cam-pan-v3 is especially a problem because this camera is likely to be mounted outside. Things like rain, snow, leaves, trees, etc. are much more likely to not only trigger motion events (see other wishlist items for the need for detection zones for each waypoint), but to distract the camera’s motion tracking. A great feature for cam plus subscribers would be track only AI Motion. That way a swaying tree branch is a lot less likely to attract my camera’s attenti…

I’m sure they’ll have to build a new Pan camera that can support local AI to be able to do this (since the past pan cams can’t support it with their limited resources), but that would be a great camera.

[Omgitstony]

Also:

Wyze Pan - Person / face motion tracking

Maybe this would use too much cpu/ram resources, but it might be useful in some cases to only track motion on the WyzeCam Pan if there is a person detected. I have a Pan mounted under my roof with an outdoor case, and on windy days, it moves around like crazy. I don’t want to wear the motor out tracking shadows, bugs, and leaves. Maybe add this feature once vehicle detection, etc is added. This kinda depends on how the camera detects people. It would have to be checking for people in real-time …