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Zhukovsky, Russia – 25 March 2025
1. Wide of recreation park of Zhukovsky
2. Various of squirrels in park
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Viktor Bokrenev, author of the Belochka Park project:
"We were walking around the park, and I had the idea that there should be a squirrel town here, and then we started doing it."
4. Various of automatic feeder
5. Bokrenev showing how feeder works, UPSOUND (Russian) "Scan the QR code"
6. Bokrenev showing how feeder works, UPSOUND (Russian): "Here we choose the type of food, for example, hazelnuts or pine nuts, which are the only ones available for now. You can choose how many grams you want.
7. Bokrenev showing how feeder works, UPSOUND (Russian) "The dispenser is triggered. It loads the required weight and then drops it."
8. Feeder working
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Olga Gorlova, author of the Belochka Park project:
"Usually, it’s a vending machine where you can just take nuts or some kind of feeders that are made for squirrels. But we have not seen an idea like ours implemented in parks yet. Therefore, we are trying to convey our value and say that we are a little different."
10. Squirrel coming
11. Squirrel eating
12. Mobile phone screen showing stream of eating squirrel on website
13. Bokrenev working on a laptop
14. Various of screen showing squirrel eating with special marks for neural network
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Viktor Bokrenev, author of the Belochka Park project:
"Every frame, what is marked with this square, it understands that there is a squirrel there. It saves them in a separate server, and after that the neural network that we are creating now will take these frames and will understand that there is a squirrel in this area."
16. Various of Bokrenev working
17. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Viktor Bokrenev, author of the Belochka Park project:
"We want to know how many squirrels there are. We want to know how many nuts a squirrel eats, how many nuts it hides, how often it comes. That’s all. We just want to know it."
18. Various of squirrels in park
STORYLINE:
A Moscow-based couple have been using artificial intelligence to count squirrels in the city’s parks and livestream the furry animals for the public.
Viktor Bokrenev and Olga Gorlova, a couple from Zhukovsky city near Moscow, have not only mounted remote control feeders but developed a neural network that will monitor squirrels activity in city parks.
Just like many other nature lovers, they wanted to find the best way to feed squirrels and share this experience with others.
"We want to know how many squirrels there are. We want to know how many nuts a squirrel eats, how many nuts it hides, how often it comes," said Bokrenev.
At first, they mounted simple feeders on trees, but then they decided to develop a more complicated system that would allow all park visitors to use their smartphones to watch the animals feed.
They came up with a special automatic feeder equipped with a camera where you can choose the type and the amount of food for squirrels.
The couple has installed seven feeders at several Moscow parks to feed squirrels and count them.
Bokrenev has developed an AI software that will recognize the squirrels on the video stream and distinguish one from another.
He said he is confident that AI will help him count all the squirrels in Moscow parks.
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