There are a growing number of apps that claim to be able to monitor your pet's emotions, and some experts say there may be science behind the technology.
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Tablely is a new app designed to monitor a cat’s mood by pointing your phone at your pet’s face. The software uses an artificial intelligence (AI) model to rate a photo using veterinary pain scales.
“Some species, like cats, hide when they’re in pain because that’s what they would do to survive in the wild,” Susan Groeneveld, co-founder of Sylvester.ai, which makes Tablely, told Lifewire in an email interview. “As a result, we often ignore serious health issues and many pets suffer in silence or are given up for behavioral issues when they could have a medical condition. Cats show very subtle signs that we often miss.”
Tablely's makers say its patented machine learning algorithms have evaluated hundreds of thousands of cat photos with over 90 percent accuracy. It uses object detection, image suitability detection, object extraction, image categorization, and result analysis. The software verifies the presence of a cat face in the image before sending it to the AI model for further analysis.
