There is a sheet metal frog decoration near the door the gets consistently classified as "person". Same with the self waterer. Frigate out of the box uses Yolo don't remember what version, and its trained on a common publicly available dataset which is heavy on people and doesn't even have a category for possum, which is why they get lumped with dogs and cats.
I started out using a version of YOLO but it requires you to draw boxes around the objects for training and we said screw that and just went with a classifier rather than a SSD object detector. Yup there is a cat somewhere in this pic. Next! So switching back to Yolo has some non-negligible effort involved and we're collecting this data from Frigate for a while and then we'll try to reclassify our old data. Hopefully that will allow us to use it to to train itself and only do a few hundred onages rather than tens of thousands.
Our raccoon showed up again the other night but he's rare. I'd placed the camera to get as much of the driveway as I could while still capturing the porch but unfortunately I think it puts the autofocus in the driveway. He wasn't in the sharpest focus. My son and I were both putting him at about 55% raccon but could possibly be Slim.
Quartering away, I couldn't see the head, just a fat gray stripe tail and huge butt. In an ideal pose they're actually sort of triangular shaped while cats are more barrel shaped (constant diameter) but pose can make that one hard to tell. Feet seem to be the most reliable indicator if he's quartering away.
Kinda sucks to get a sighting and not have a good training image from it.
