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Wanted criminals have already been tracked using biometric imaging, but now an Irish company is targeting dairy cows with a new form of facial recognition.
Irish company Cainthus appears to be ‘raising the steaks’ in facial recognition with an unusual plan to roll out the technology to dairy farms around the world.
The data solutions company based in Dublin has partnered with agriculture giant Cargill to produce a predictive imaging system that can identify cows from their facial features and hide patterns. The software will also provide dairy farmers with data on their animal’s temperature and food intake.
I'm definitely bullish on this idea.
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/417752-cow-facial-recognition-cargill/
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Monday February 05 2018, @06:24PM
You're comparing apples and oranges. A Chromebook can do things you can't even imagine doing with pen and paper.
According to TFS, this machine vision system's purpose is simply to identify individual cows, so you can track them individually. You don't need bovine facial recognition to do that, you just need eartags, like they've been using for ages. What does the vision system do that you can't do with eartags?
As for horse and buggy vs. cars, let's compare cars and walking. Which is better? Well, if I just need to go across the street and back, the more complicated solution (car) is pretty stupid: you're expending far more resources, and dealing with far more complexity (including maintenance), just to do something that you can do just as quickly, or perhaps more quickly, without any technology at all.