Hi,
It seems to me that it'd be quite difficult to
determine whether your cat carries some prey by image recognition. First of all there are various different, possibly partially dismembered, types
of animals it could potentially drag in. Secondly your cat might not always give you a nice upfront image (although that could be circumvented I guess). Furthermore you'd want to have pretty good lightning conditions at all times (I assume your cat goes out at night as well).
Also, the color of your cat might play a role.
If your cat would eg be snow white that would certainly help things too:) (in that case you could eg make the snow white cat stand in front of a snow white piece of cardboard and just look at color values and hope it didn't make itself dirty while outside:) )
Perhaps this'd be an idea though: put some form of scale in front of the cat entrance. If it exceeds, your cats weight + some, deny entry. Of course there'd also be some problems with this you'd have to sort out. Also I'm not sure how much the weight of your cat varies per day, although my guess is that its less then the weight of a bird (don't have a cat myself) If your cat actually eats prey
outside this might be a problem though:)
anyway, just my 2ct
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Hi, It seems to me that it'd be quite difficult to determine whether your cat carries some prey by image recognition. First of all there are various different, possibly partially dismembered, types of animals it could potentially drag in. Secondly your cat might not always give you a nice upfront image (although that could be circumvented I guess). Furthermore you'd want to have pretty good lightning conditions at all times (I assume your cat goes out at night as well). :) (in that case you could eg make the snow white cat stand in front of a snow white piece of cardboard and just look at color values and hope it didn't make itself dirty while outside :) )
:)
Also, the color of your cat might play a role. If your cat would eg be snow white that would certainly help things too
Perhaps this'd be an idea though: put some form of scale in front of the cat entrance. If it exceeds, your cats weight + some, deny entry. Of course there'd also be some problems with this you'd have to sort out. Also I'm not sure how much the weight of your cat varies per day, although my guess is that its less then the weight of a bird (don't have a cat myself) If your cat actually eats prey outside this might be a problem though
anyway, just my 2ct