Yeah, the targeted photography is my next step. I live in Brooklyn, and my pigeon raising friend lives in Jersey, so if we release the bird from the right place in Brooklyn we should be able to get some interesting photos of Manhattan.
as drones are illegal in many places and are just targetted on the battlefield like in Ukraine, I wonder when we are going to get drones looking (and with time more and more behaving) like a bird.
I have a pet pigeon. My partner wants to do some sort of a lifestyle video of him with little miniature kitchen, living room, etc. Sorta like Martha Stewart, only with a black carrier pigeon.
He comes running when called, and he really likes bossing the dogs around, so I think we could actually do something like this.
I appended `?hl=en` to force the selection of the English language, you may want to remove it (it ignores `fr` or `es`, but it is available in German).
In addition to spy photography, pigeons were being trained to guide missiles at one point by pecking on a screen. Project Orcon (for ORganic CONtrol) was the name of the program. It doesn't appear to have been used for any actual bombings. The trainers said their biggest issue was just getting people to take them seriously. The project was canceled as electronic controls became available.
Very interesting but to be pigeon's perspective the eye of the camera should have same resolution, color sensitivity, depth etc of a pigeon. If not it is just another drone shot.
Brilliant, this is giving me ideas. Growing up, I built multiple pigeon nest to house them around the houses in my hometown and I remember feeding them, and making up my own stories. I think, I sold them for religious ceremonies but I'm sure they comes back to the same homes later.
Now, why shouldn't I start a Pigeon photography/videography thingy and scan the entire town. No need for drones, no nothing, just pigeons with wi-fi-ed cameras that offloads the content as they comes back home every evening.
Ah! That's my hyperspectral imagery source to train the ML-pipelines. What if LIDARs become cheap enough to be fitted on the pigeons? Now, that would be super interesting.
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[ 8.6 ms ] story [ 56.5 ms ] threadI can imagine you would be even more successful with targeted photography from a trained bird.
I guess ravens really are the dark one's eyes and ears!
https://youtu.be/J1zYF0cejmg?si=3fIDDy19l1Pp7YRh
He comes running when called, and he really likes bossing the dogs around, so I think we could actually do something like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3x7KhsZOY
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/julius-neubronner-an...
I appended `?hl=en` to force the selection of the English language, you may want to remove it (it ignores `fr` or `es`, but it is available in German).
Now, why shouldn't I start a Pigeon photography/videography thingy and scan the entire town. No need for drones, no nothing, just pigeons with wi-fi-ed cameras that offloads the content as they comes back home every evening.
Ah! That's my hyperspectral imagery source to train the ML-pipelines. What if LIDARs become cheap enough to be fitted on the pigeons? Now, that would be super interesting.