Hi. I'm a hobbyist maker / coder. I've got an idea for my next project, and stumbled on OpenCV and am hoping the community might be able to give me some advice. The project is to build a raspberry pi based device that would use a video camera to monitor my bird feeder. When certain species land on the feeder, the device would send a text to my phone. For example, if a morning dove landed on the feeder, it would send me a text, but if a cardinal landed, it would do nothing.
I've seen sample code that uses OpenCV to recognize still images of human faces. Would the same logic work for the scenario above? Which algorithms would be most appropriate?