Intro to Cooper The WatchDog

Cooper is a vigilant watchdog equipped with CCTV and OpenAI GPT/Amazon Rekognition capabilities, dedicated to monitoring any suspicious activities in and around your house.

Features

• Analyzes events captured in videos.
• Alerts you in case of any suspicious activities detected.

Prerequisite

• A CCTV system supporting RTSP. You need to set up the hardware and ensure it's accessible, either via the Internet or locally.
• A Python environment
• A OpenAI API Key or AWS access credential

Installation

To run Cooper the WatchDog, follow these steps:

1. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Read the video stream and capture events

./Monitor.py

3. Analyze events

./Analyze.py

Current Issues

• While the analysis by GPT-4 Vision is impressive, it lacks consistency. The same photo may yield vastly different results.
• Event capturing is processed locally, which is CPU-intensive and prone to failure.

Todo

• Implement alerts via WhatsApp or other messaging channels.
• Refine the prompts to ensure stable and predictable analysis.
• Improve the algorithm for local event capturing.
• Make both Analyze and Monitor daemon process.

Contact

For more information, please feel free to reach out to me at @lipingtababa