Anyone else notice that Wyze AI cannot differentiate between a waving flag, and sometimes a waving branch, and a person? This cannot be that difficult to program the differences.
Find the human object
Find the human object
Chances are fair that the flag or branch are actually the motion event triggers but not the things being detected as a person. If you either upload a video or show a screenshot of one of the false detection, some of us with a lot of experience resolving false detections may have some ideas to help you resolve it too. Sometimes as simple as blocking out a little square or slightly adjusting the camera angle or slightly modifying an object can make a difference depending on the situation.
But you are right that it’s likely there is a non-human OBJECT being falsely detected. This happens sometimes, but it’s often resolvable once we can identify the culprit.
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Video added to original post - Find the human looking object. No solution yet, it’s an AI failure. I have sent in multiple feedbacks indicating the there was no person in the video. This should be easy to solve. Striped rectangular waving in mid air should not be identified as a human. I will take my chances that Waldo wont arrive on my porch.
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Thanks, Here are my suspects numbered in order of likelihood:
You may think it’s crazy that a stationary chair would be my primary suspect. However, I have 3 different Camera companies AI’s who have all thought a chair was a person detection. Several people in the past have had this same thing too. Often I tell them to either block the chair with a detection zone, or slightly change the chair’s position, or put something over the chair like a blanket to change it in some way or move the chair out of view for now just as a test and one of those things suddenly resolves their issue and they stop getting false detections, then they bring the chair back and they start having the issues again. I have 2 really good hypotheses about why this happens to so many companies’ AI detections, but the end result is indisputable in lots of those cases. Try one of those solutions, even if it is just a temporary test. If you suddenly stop getting person detections, you’ll know what the detection issue is.
You are right that the flag could be the cause in this case since when it was waiving, in some instances it loosely resembled a human shape from the AI perspective…I could explain why, but suffice it to say that some pillars like you have (where it changes shape from thin to wider and back to thin) are already moderate risk for a false detection, presumably because many human bodies do something similar from certain angles in a still frame analysis. Add the flag to that which can sometimes look like a baggy sleeve/arm or else like a head type of shape in some frames and together with the column it is now a higher risk of false detection. I’ve seen this with Wyze and at least one other company whose cameras I have.
Your lamp is another one that has a possibility of being the culprit (sometimes the AI’s think lamps loosely resemble a head shape), and the pillar on the left side has a low chance, but is still a possibility.
My recommendation is to test the above. Either block those items out or removed them from view temporarily (for the chair) and see if that solves it. If so, you know what the real false detection object is. I would recommend trying them one at a time.