The Japanese Cat Pain Detector app works with artificial intelligence
The Japanese app “Cat Pain Detector”, which works with artificial intelligence, promises to detect if cats are in pain after analyzing the animal’s facial expression.
About 43,000 people already use the app, which launched in May this year. Among the users, most come from Japan, but there are also cat tutors from Europe and South America, Go Sakioka, director of the company Carelogy, based in AFP, told news agency France-Presse (AFP). Tokyo.
The application is easy to use, just download a photo of your cat and wait for the comment in seconds. First, the tutor must indicate that he is aware that the technology used is artificial intelligence, which does not guarantee an accurate diagnosis.
How does it work
The developers have collected around 6,000 photos of cats to study the position of ears, muzzle, whiskers and eyelids and, from this, determine variable characteristics.
After an extensive recording of the facial expressions of suffering cats and healthy cats, the University of Montreal has developed a scale of “gestures”, which serves as the basis for the analysis offered by the application.
The second phase of the app’s development used artificial intelligence to build a model based on the collected data.
“CPD is currently over 90 percent accurate,” said Sakioka, who expects his company to go further thanks to the roughly 600,000 photos users have taken.
Source: Terra
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