Background

Hornets, especially asian hornets, are a menace to the bee colony. Without human intervention, colony can die.

Goal

We want to build hornet detector AI model watching the hive entrance and alert the beekeeper in such cases.

Suggested steps

• take an existing dataset and/or model, like one present in

https://universe.roboflow.com/search?q=hornet

• alternatively, collect dataset yourself
• train a model

Integration

• We want to run inference on 10 sec mp4 chunks of videos
• We also want to be able to detect hornets in real-time over webcam, for example as part of yolo v8 with cv2

Alerts

• We need to report detections to Alerts
• We also want to affect Close mechanised hive entrance in case of hornet attack

Relevant links

Here is an example from japanese university: