Dear MEL Topic Readers,
AI to help tell donkeys apart at island sanctuary
Facial
recognition is a technology that identifies or verifies a person's identity
using their face. It works by comparing a facial image from a camera or a video
frame to a database of known faces. Facial recognition is used in various
applications, including security systems, smartphone unlocking, law
enforcement, airport passenger screening, and automatic ticket gates. It first identifies
key facial features from the image, such as the distance between the eyes, the
shape of the nose, and the contour of the jawline, and then compares them with
the features in the database. Can we use the same or similar technology to
identify a particular animal within a herd of cattle? With the help of the University
of Southampton, a donkey sanctuary in the Isle of Wight, England, is developing
a mobile app to identify particular donkeys by using AI. With the mobile app, visitors
will be able to find the identity and profile of the donkey they are interested
in soon. In the future, the sanctuary hopes to use the app to help monitor health
issues in the animals. Once developed, such technology might help farmers monitor
the health and growth of dairy cattle, too.
Read the article and learn how AI can help identify a particular donkey
from others.
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