With the efforts of Syed Umaid Ahmed, a Ph.D. Scholar at FAST-NUCES, an animal identification app, would soon be available for Pakistan that can be used to track lost or stolen animals. The app will use biometric verification technology to verify the animals and the owners they belong to.
Animal Identification App Will Be a Game-changer
It should be noted that apps like these are rare and difficult to collect data, but Pakistan will be one of the few countries to implement this tech soon successfully. Dr. Umaid’s work on animal biometrics primarily focuses on cattle, including cows and buffalos, but it’s also being trained to work with horses, dogs, and other animals. The app is also going to be open-source so that anyone can make use of it.
The technology will let you identify and verify different animals by taking pictures and saving their data, just like the fingerprint print data with NADRA. The app will be able to verify an animal through the nose patterns – as no two animals have the same nose patterns – and save their identity in a directory; its algorithm has been trained using over 4000 images of cattle. Dr. Umaid said that the app is about 70% ready and will be launched to the public for free very soon during Eid al-Adha.
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