Microsoft launches an application that determines the breed of your dog

Although facial recognition technology is nothing new and although Microsoft has already introduced us to projects like How Old, Twins or Not and My Mustache; able to determine age, establish kinship between twins, and determine whether a mustache is appropriate respectively; the company continues to refine this artificial intelligence system.

A bet that has now given rise to a new application: Fetch!. Specifically, it is a tool that can, by analyzing a photo, identify and classify the breed of a dog. Its objective? Building a tool that would allow for “extraordinary, fun and amazing object recognition,” says Mitch Goldberg, the initiative's development director.

How Fetch works!

The app, which has been created by the Microsoft Garage laboratories (Project Oxford) -in charge of giving life to other tremendously peculiar ones such as the one that analyzes the feelings present in a selfie (Emotion Detection)- uses a system that captures the main features of the animal, and compares them with others present in a specific database -of images and other parameters.

Its operation, in any case, is simple. It will be enough to upload a photo of our furry (or of another that we wish to submit to the scrutiny of the application) in the corresponding tab. Almost immediately, the screen will change and we will receive the classification, that is to say: its race and main characteristics.

Of course, despite achieving it successfully with most of the images on the Internet, the same has not happened with the one taken by ourselves and at the top of this article.For its preparation, in any case, with the collaboration of veterinary experts, kennels and protectors; some entities and professionals actively participate to update the information.

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What makes Fetch! Unique is the combination of artificial intelligence and expert data on dog breeds, something that has helped us be more precise. We have invested in experts to make sure we had the right images for each breed, says Javier Álvarez-Valle, Senior Engineer on the project."

Another of its particularities ( although of little use beyond sheer curiosity), Fetch! It is even capable of telling us what kind of dog we ourselves would be, yes, humans. In the case of myself, I have turned out to be a shepherd from the Shetland Islands (yes, like Lasy, wasn't there another?).

Despite having been created by Redmond and paradoxically, it is not yet available for the mobile version of Windows, but rather its use is limited to their website, What-Dog.net; and its free iOS app. In the latter it is possible to capture the image of our best friend directly, without resorting to the gallery. In the case of the human comparison, it makes us even ears.

Via | Microsoft