The Russian company NtechLab, specializing in facial recognition systems, is working on AI for finding pets.

«NtechLab will launch a system for finding lost pets. The company has released the first version of the pet recognition system - cats and dogs - and is preparing for its testing in several regions of Russia. Free Telegram-bot, mobile app, and website are being considered as scenarios. It is assumed that people who have lost or found an animal will be able to upload its photo, and the artificial intelligence will compare the shots», - said NtechLab representative Alexander Thomas.

«We observe quite high recognition accuracy for some breeds of animals if we have a high-quality shot and a close-up of the animal's face. In the case of some pets, including black cats, there is still some work to do on accuracy - for artificial intelligence, they look very similar», - added Thomas.

In perspective, the system can be trained to search for pets using city cameras.