How to Keep Cats Off Your Lawn with Deep Learning

So NVIDIA engineer Robert Bond is using deep learning -- and our Jetson TX1 development platform -- to recognize cats and turn on his home's sprinkler system to gently shoo the visitors away. "My wife is a gardener and she likes her garden to be tidy and clean," says Bond, 65, a system software engineer who has been at NVIDIA for more than eight years. Bond quickly dismissed the idea of trapping the cats -- which just seemed "unneighborly" -- and decided to go with a more technical solution. Bond is no stranger to deep learning or Jetson. Last year, he build a system that shines a harmless 5 milliwatt laser beam on the ants that occasionally scuttle across his kitchen floor (see "How One NVIDIA Built a Jetson-Powered Laser'Ant Annoyer'").