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AI tool can take a cattle's temperature with only a photo (phys.org)

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What if you could look into a cow's face and know whether it had a fever? A new tool from the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Lab at the University of Arkansas uses artificial intelligence and thermal cameras to estimate the body temperature of cattle.

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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It uses thermal cameras to determine if the cow has a fever? No shit.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought the same. However, if they are using top-down pictures of a heard of cattle, they probably need a quicker way to get a body temperature estimate from the overall heat gradient over the cow. I suppose they are just using a basic ANN to match pictures of cattle to manually measured rectal temperatures. Yeah its still AI, but likely a more traditional model which is probably closer to face recognition or handwriting recognition.

It makes sense and is fairly simple. The article is just AI click bait though.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

More AI slop to sell AI.