A growing number of apps claim to monitor your pets' emotions, and some experts say there may be science behind the technology.
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Table is a new app designed to monitor a cat's mood by pointing your phone at your pet's face. The software uses an artificial intelligence (AI) model to assess a photo against veterinary pain scales.
"Some species, like cats, hide when they're in pain because this is what they would do to survive in the wild," Susan Groeneveld, co-founder of Sylvester.ai, which makes Table, told Lifewire in an email interview. "Because of this, we often overlook serious health problems, and many pets suffer in silence or are surrendered due to behavioral problems when they may have a medical condition. Cats will show very subtle signals that we often overlook."
The makers of Table say its proprietary machine learning algorithms have rated hundreds of thousands of cat photos with over 90 percent accuracy. It uses object detection, image suitability detection, object extraction, image categorization and result analysis. The software verifies the presence of a cat face in the image before sending it to the AI model for further analysis.
