# PolliCount

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Newen Calle](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/Newen95)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/Newen95/pollicount
- **Demo video:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HYNmIMTm4
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/3527

One phone video, every pollinator visit counted, and each count checkable in the video.

THE PROBLEM
Pollinator monitoring relies on citizen-science volunteers. In surveys like the UK FIT Count, they watch a flower patch for 10 minutes and note every insect that lands, by eye. Only totals are kept, nothing can be checked, and telling a hoverfly from a bee in a split second is hard.

WHAT POLLICOUNT DOES
Film the patch with a phone. SAM 3.1 tracks every insect and every flower, a visit counts when an insect lands and stays nearly still for at least 1/3 s, and Muse Spark Open sorts each visitor into its FIT Count group and explains why, with close-ups. Every count links back to its moment in the video: timeline, spotlight, step from visit to visit, slow motion. Counts export to JSON and CSV. Nothing to train, nothing to install.

PUSHING THE FRONTIER
Filmed from afar, a honeybee is about 30 pixels and SAM 3.1 alone finds no visit at all. PolliCount then finds candidates from their movement and has Muse Spark Open confirm each one: on annotated research videos from Monash University, it now finds 2 visits out of 3, where SAM alone found none.

IT WORKS
Live app in any browser, phone or computer, with 7 real examples: https://newen-calle--pollicount.us-east.modal.run
On hand-checked visitor tracks, Muse Spark Open put every insect in the right group (57/57). The evaluation, a model comparison and the known limits are in the README: measured, not claimed.

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