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What I really want is an iOS app that helps me locate insects in a room. Start video feed, analyze pixels for a small object flying around and draw a green box around each while flying and a red box once it lands somewhere. I can take care of the rest.

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My dogs do this for me, minus the green box bit. They hear bugs, locate them, and focus on them until I do the rest, then they try to eat the remains.

Wait til you learn about cats. Houseflies are a free interactive toy for them to stalk

wont your eyes be infinitely better than a phone camera for this?

Maybe yours are today, but maybe they won't be, tomorrow.

I often spot the mosquito but lose track of it after a second (against a patterned background) or if it rapdily changes direction (which they seemed to have evolved to do).

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