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IT’S a feat that will set tails wagging: facial recognition software that works on dogs. Thierry Moreira at the University of Campinas in Brazil and his colleagues have developed not one but two such systems – named WOOF and BARK – to help match animals in shelters with runaway pets.
The team initially tested three commercial systems that recognise human faces, feeding them photosets of huskies and pugs. All flunked. That brought home to the researchers that “dog facial recognition is not a trivial extension…
