Hello all,
Good day! Shawn from Wyze again. Welcome back to the Wyze AI monthly update! We asked for feedback last month and got a lot from you! We will now include a short summary section at the beginning of these newsletters (thanks for the suggestion, @wazooo12!). If you have any feedback, please shoot it to aifeedback@wyze.com.
In this month’s edition:
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Wyze AI Pet Detection will launch in the Wyze app 2.21 update in June -
Volunteers are needed for new AI system testing, Face Recognition testing, and Sound Detection testing
Wyze AI Model Updates
We’re pleased to announce that Pet Detection will be officially launched for Wyze Cam in the 2.21 app update in June! Now your Wyze Cam can not only recognize family members with 2 feet but also our 4-footed family members! Are you using your Wyze Cam to keep an eye on their activities? Want to be notified when the cam sees them? Turn on “Pet Detection” in the Cam Plus services page to give it a shot!
In addition to Pet Detection publicly releasing, after a couple of months of iteration, the current Wyze computer vision models for Person, Vehicle, and Package Detection have reached the point where precision and recall strike a good balance. For those interested in the machine learning terminology, here is the explanations. At the same time, we are also aware that there are still some cases of false detection due to the nature of machine learning. To give you some hints about the challenge:
The AI team will keep designing new machine learning models and improving the performance with newly submitted video feedback. Shoutout to our lovely Wyze customers who have submitted thousands of videos to us for the research! You’re absolutely amazing and awesome!
New AI System Testing
One of the solutions to the above problem is a new patent pending AI detection system. It incorporates more visual information from hardware and firmware as well as using cascaded models to deal with edge cases.
As we are developing and testing the new system, we would like to have more people to help us test the results and the stability of the system. Please sign up for testing here if you have a spare Wyze Cam v3 for testing and want to lend a hand.
Face Recognition v2 Testing
Face Recognition v2 has been in testing for almost a month. Right now, the team is working on resolving some of the challenges like partial faces, faces in profile, blurred faces in low light conditions, fast moving clips, faces at a distance (it currently works better within 6 feet), etc. Also, Face Recognition is rolled out to Wyze Video Doorbell and we are training a specialized model for this product as well.
If you were not previously a tester and are interested in testing the feature now, you can sign up here.
Sound Detection Testing
Yes, you heard it right (see what we did there?). In addition to being able to see, we also want our Wyze Cam to be smarter when hearing things. So we are adding AI Sound Detection to our AI tech stack! And since Father’s Day is coming, the first applications come to parents of humans and fur babies! The first batch of sound detection includes babies crying and dogs barking.
Check out Mr. Wyze Great Dad being excited about this test:
Act fast! The sign-up sheet for sound detection is here.
By the way, we’re developing a simpler way for you to sign up for all the new AI testing… Shawn said he doesn’t wanna manage 20 Google Forms… 
AI Data Bounty Hunter
To help us with training the new models and building new AI features, we are looking for the example data listed below. If you can find a few videos matching these descriptions in your list and are willing to send them to us using the video feedback tool, it would be super helpful for accelerating the improvement speed!
- Videos with babies inside the frame
- Videos with audio of a dog barking
- Videos with audio of a baby crying
- Videos with packages inside the frame
- Videos with animals inside the frame including but not only limited to dogs, cats, birds, and bears (we hope you don’t have a bear in your home but we have actually received videos of this before).
You can submit the video using the banner at the bottom of your Event video.
Before You go…
Happy Father’s Day, Wyze Dad! You are the best! 
And to those of you that may have a hard time around this holiday, we send you our love and support.
Catch you all in July!
Best,
Shawn from the Wyze AI team