AI based Scarecrow Preventing from Crop Vandalization

Crop harm as a result of animal assaults is one of the foremost threats in decreasing the crop yield. Crop in farms is often broken via local animals like buffalos, cows, goats, wild animals like bears, monkeys, wild pigs, elephants, etc and many other birds like sparrows, crows, pigeons. These may cause serious damage to crops which in turn ends in large losses for the farmers. It is difficult for the field owners to build physical barriers to entire field and monitor it. The existing systems mainly based on observation. Farmers take actions according to the animal that entered. The other ways farmers use to prevent the crop destruction by virtue of animals include constructing barricades, electrical fences and manual surveillance. Farmers also use human puppets in middle of fields to ward off animals or birds. So here this study proposes an AI based Scarecrow that protects the crops from wild animals with the help of scanning using camera, it detects the stray animals or birds and when it detects the stray animals or birds then it produces a sound of animal extermination. This study makes a program with the help of live video detecting object using yolov3, coco names, cv2 modules. It ensures complete safety of crops from animals causing damage to it.