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🐘 Animal Detector – Wildlife Monitoring AI System

A smart and powerful AI-based wildlife monitoring system that detects wild animals like elephants, lions, tigers, and more using your webcam — and instantly plays an alert sound 🔊 when one is detected.

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🎯 Overview

This project helps forest officers and wildlife teams monitor real-time video feeds to detect wild animals automatically.
If a dangerous animal appears, the system raises an alert — preventing potential harm to humans or property.

Built Using:

• 🧠 TensorFlow + Keras – Deep learning for animal classification
• 🎥 OpenCV – Capturing and processing camera frames
• 🎵 Playsound – Triggering instant alerts
• ⚙ Teachable Machine – Quick and easy model training

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⚙ Features

✅ Detects multiple wild animals (Elephant, Lion, Tiger, etc.)
✅ Ignores humans, pets, and background motion
✅ Plays sound alerts for wild animals only
✅ Real-time detection via webcam
✅ Easy to customize with your own trained model

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🧩 How It Works

1️⃣ Model Training

Trained on Google’s Teachable Machine using custom classes:

• 🐘 Elephant
• 🦁 Lion
• 🐯 Tiger
• 🐆 Cheetah
• 🐻 Bear
• 🦍 Gorilla
• 🦏 Rhino
• 🐺 Hyena
• 🚫 Non-Targets (humans, cats, dogs, etc.)
• 🌿 Background

2️⃣ Model Prediction

• Captures live frames from the webcam
• Resizes and normalizes images
• Predicts animal type and confidence
• If confidence > 80% and class is wild → plays alert sound

3️⃣ Alert System

When a target animal is detected, alert.mp3 plays instantly 🔊

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💻 Setup Instructions

1️⃣ Install Requirements

pip install opencv-python tensorflow playsound==1.2.2 numpy

2️⃣ Folder Structure

Animal_Detector/ │ ├── main.py ├── keras_model.h5 ├── labels.txt ├── alert.mp3 └── banner.png ← (upload this image file here later)

3️⃣ Run the Project

python main.py

Press ‘Q’ to stop the camera feed.

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🚀 Future Enhancements

📱 Send alerts to phone via SMS or WhatsApp ☁ Upload detections to a cloud dashboard 🕹 Integration with drones or CCTV 🧠 Improve accuracy with transfer learning

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👨‍💻 Author

Mohammed Arshad 💻 Wildlife AI Enthusiast | Data & AI Learner 🌍 GitHub Profile