iOS App: Scare Away

Zhao Xu
2 min readOct 15, 2018

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This app recognizes and scares pest birds away with AI powered iPhone camera. (Get it from App Store: Scare Away) [中文使用说明]

The pest birds could be crows, ravens, or any other pest birds like seagulls or pigeons. Once these pest birds are recognized in the camera, Scare Away plays alarm sound to scare these birds away.

For crows and ravens specifically, this app will play the crow/raven alarm call, these birds will be scared away but all other birds should not be affected. For pest birds other than crow and raven, this app will play screaming eagle sounds so that all birds will be scared away.

Example usages:

1. You can use it to protect your yummy snack from seagulls while you are on the beach (sorry I didn’t use real snacks for the demo)

Full video: https://youtu.be/LI8BW96nSuo

2. You could use it to protect baby birds from crow/raven — this is the reason why I developed this app— to protect baby birds in my yard from crows.

Full video: https://youtu.be/iaynQP01U-c

Other features:

Scare Away could detect pest birds no matter how you place your phone, even upside down.

You could also tune the FPS to a lower rate to conserve battery, and you can choose when to dim the screen.

Last but not least, you can change the detection sensitivity by changing the Detection Score Threshold, the default value is 80.

Please leave suggestions or comments below, thanks!

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