Sad…. This is not a person! 
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Was the vehicle driving itself? I get person for possums sometimes.
I had something similar just last night. This is funny though
My floodlight cam is set to only turn on when a person is detected. I was sitting on the bathroom throne last night when the floodlight next to the bathroom window suddenly turned on, and I jumped up and opened the bathroom window to see who was in my backyard after midnight.
As soon as I opened the bathroom window, half blinded by the 3000 lumens of light blasting in the dark… my cat jumped at my face with my pants down and scared me to death 
I ended up letting him come sit inside with me until I was done, even though he’s not normally allowed upstairs. The little devil
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If only the floodlight cam had some measure in it to be able to remotely view the area in question.
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I went back and looked for it (it is a Floodlight pro, it DOES have a view since the FOV is so awesome) but I will just include some screenshots instead…This is the moment I opened the window:
He was on a cat tree I moved outside because we didn’t have a good spot for it inside anymore (they already have a few others inside), and they almost never use this thing outside. But he did last night. This was his position exactly before the floodlight turned on:
As soon as the floodlight turned on, he immediately moved close to window. It felt like he jumped at me because his shadow wasn’t showing up through the window, but as soon as I opened it, his face was right in my face, but the video shows it wasn’t quite as dramatic as I remembered from being startled/surprised to have his face in mine right away when he wasn’t previously visible there.
Though the local Edge AI detected him as a person and turned on, the cloud event doesn’t have him tagged as a person, so the cloud AI caught on that it was not a person. But after I put him back outside, he perched back up on that cat tree and the cloud AI then detected him as a person this time, but just for this one event. looking at it in the dim lighting perched up there, I guess it KIND OF has some similarities in dim lighting? maybe especially in certain angles/perspectives throughout the event? 
Either way, he did startle me by having an unexpected cat face immediately there when I was wondering if there was an intruder…and I dramatized it A LITTLE for a fun narrative, but I legitimately didn’t completely expect to have a cat face so close to mine immediately while a little on edge.
I do have ANOTHER floodlight pro mounted on the back wall, pointing directly toward the house too (you can see it’s light clearly reflecting off the pool and straight back on the wall), but I’m not going to show video of me in the bathroom opening the window. lol
It was just a funny experience relevant to the topic.
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That second pic with him on the actually DOES look like a person climbing up (tail looks like an arm holding on), actually the cam got that one right in my opinion.
Hope he didn’t scare the you know what out of you 
I’m guessing he walked in nonchalant like “oh hey, sup?”
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Yeah, I can totally see how a local edge AI got that detection in this dim lighting.
Accurate enough. He definitely felt entitled to come in and hang out. They all know they’re not usually allowed upstairs –I’m actually extremely allergic to our cats and we keep upstairs as a clean-ish zone to give my immune system a break per the doctors’ advice since I said we’re not getting rid of them 
and as a safe place for guests who are allergic– but this one always tries to come up with excuses to walk through the dining room so he can snatch up snacks dropped on the floor by the toddlers. He doesn’t really listen to rules like most of the others we have GENERALLY do. He’s also got the worst coordination and is clumsy and falls off things and doesn’t land on his feet all the time and he does dumb things sometimes too. He’s special. lol He’s actually a stray someone begged my daughter to adopt, but when we took him in to see if he had a chip (he didn’t), the county said they wouldn’t let us keep him and they held on to him. Then days later they showed up to our house and said they changed their mind and begged us to take him in for free after all.
In that case I’d say he’s normal and the other ones are weird
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Even MFP is weird now, he doesn’t run when he sees me. Now he just sits or lies down next to the driveway and stares at me with his evil cat eyes.
Yeah my kitties are pretty good in a lot of ways. They understand certain commands about when to come, when to leave a room, stand up and give me a high five, dance around, their names, what no means (mostly). But they aren’t completely trustworthy when unsupervised
Growing up we had a cat that was about a year older than me, from the day I was born he slept with me every night. Calling his name and saying “bedtime” he’d come running up the stairs, crawl under the covers, and doze off with head on the pillow. He graduated from crib to bed along with me. We also had several more traditional ones over the years, perfectly friendly, but couldn’t resist the urge to cause mayhem.
One of the barn cats had a litter, and the kittens all slept with one of the horses, he was a big guy, around 1200lbs if I remember right, probably the calmest and most laid back horse I’ve ever seen. He was always very careful around his babies. When picking/cleaning his hooves he’d lean on you. Buddy, you’re too big for that. Loved beer too (well they all do, but he was good at quietly snatching a can if you weren’t paying attention).
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I ocassionally get false Person tagging on my mailbox camera and mainly at night. Here is a screenshot showing it is Tagged as Person.
Here is the Cloud Event video.
I am not complaining because I feel my Wyze v3 cameras work well enough for the price point. My cameras are also inside windows which introduce glare and reflection and that is my doing.
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Vaguely resembles an out of shape person
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The Wyze AI is more “A” than “I”. Not only is its “guessing” wrong the majority of the time, but every time the sunlight flickers through a moving branch, it alerts me to a VEHICLE …. yes… it’s my car that is parked in the same place day after day. Useless training mechanism Wyze has because I’ve sent dozens/hundreds? of submissions, but their AI learns nothing. In fact, in conjunction with Wyze’s delayed or absent notifications of blatantly obvious, for example, people walking up to the door… without the livestreaming over their web portal (which I hear from other users is also being brutally diminished by Wyze) that I monitor constantly, I would have no peace of mind just relying on their notifications (which also hit a ceiling of 24 alerts on my Android phone after which I have to reset things).
I hate the overuse of “AI” by everyone these days (AI Washing I believe is the term). In reality, wyze is using pattern recognition/fingerprinting. I guess Machine Learning might be more accurate but I’d say even that is being generous.
But the issue you mention with parked cars is actually a totally different one. The analysis is done on a single still frame uploaded to their servers, and whatever is most prominent (often a car) is what will get tagged. As of now, the solution is to exclude where you normally park from the detection zone which will help reduce that. In reality it seems it would be fairly simple for them to upload the coordinates of the motion along with the still frame and only analyze that area. Obviously they are uploading the coordinates of the detection zone (otherwise that trick wouldn’t work), but those coordinates are static for the most part, so I guess they need to up their game a bit to calculate and send the coordinates of motion without adding much delay to the processing.
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