UK bird classifier

This is a pre-trained inception v3 tensorflow model that should be able to correctly classify common UK birds.

What can it detect:

Good question, there are two models currently, (look in the models folder.) largeBirds4.pb is trained on many many more species of birds, with a slight drop in accuracy, where as ukGarenModel.pb is trained on only 12.

The data I've trained this model on is fairly specific. All animals were closely cropped, this means that to get good results you'll need to make sure that your image you wish to classify is side on and quite big.

The list of animals that ukGardenBirds.pb has been trained on are:

1. Gray Squirrels
2. Crow (carrion and rook)
3. Wren
4. Wood pidgeon
5. House sparrow
6. Magpie
7. Blackbird (male and female, although female is less well defined in the model)
8. Chaffinch
9. Dunnock
10. Song Thrush
11. Robin (male and female)
12. Cats

LargeBirds4 however has many more species it can detect:

1. pheasant
2. grey partridge
3. wren
4. black restart
5. grey heron
6. yellow wagtail
7. starling
8. goldfinch
9. stock dove
10. jackdaw
11. squirrel
12. great tit
13. jay
14. long tailed tit
15. crossbill
16. collared dove
17. house sparrow
18. mistle thrush
19. chaffinch
20. wood pigeon
21. bullfinch
22. coal tit
23. pied wagtail
24. blackheaded gull
25. meadow pipit
26. treecreeper
27. bluetit
28. lesser whitethroat
29. turtle dove
30. grey wagtail
31. dunnock
32. reed bunting
33. swift
34. ring necked parakeet
35. green woodpecker
36. siskin
37. stonechat
38. waxwing
39. rook
40. chiffchaff
41. cuckoo
42. house martin
43. spotted flycatcher
44. nuthatch
45. cat
46. pied flycatcher
47. swallow
48. great black backed gull
49. blackbird
50. crested tit
51. lesser spotted woodpecker
52. robin
53. herring gull

This should cover most common birds in your garden.

How to run

First you need to make sure that Tensorflow is installed

Then once you have cloned this repo, run:

python bird.py

which will classify any pictures in the "testImages" folder

The script "bird.py" is just the example from tensor flow, and has no special magic to make it run (apart from the blackbox that is TF...)

Dataset

I have not included the dataset, as I don't own the copyright. However if you wish to obtain a copy, please get in touch