[MiloCam] is a super small Machine Learning project that I started to make watching the dog (Milo) easier. Milo can be super quiet which makes knowing when he needs to go out near impossible sometimes, so I thought a system that could detect Milo and notify me when he needs attention would be a game changer.
This was my first time experimenting with computer vision and open source detection models, so I started this project off small. I picked the facebook/detr-resnet-50 model for its ease of use, and the discord.py library to send notifications whenever the model detected a dog with over 90% confidence. I've actually made a discord bot in the past to serve as a coding assistant, so this part of the project was fairly straightforward.
