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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Cat door unlocks via facial recognition - Hack a Day

Cat door unlocks via facial recognition

posted May 14th 2010 10:00am by Mike Szczys
filed under: home hacks

Faced with critters trying to get in and a cat that loved to show them her latest kill, the folks at Quantum Picture came up with a system that unlocks the cat door based on image recognition. As you can see above, it uses a camera to capture the profile of anything approaching the cat door. That image is compared to stored positive identification sets, making up a feline positive identification protocol. Don’t think this is necessary? In the writeup there’s a couple of images showing the outline of a skunk. Sounds like this system is a necessity.

We wonder if this lucky cat also has an Internet enabled cat feeder?

[Thanks Stephen]


Go there, see more Hacks...
http://hackaday.com/2010/05/14/cat-door-unlocks-via-facial-recognition/

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