According to the SPFES, when
a sheep is in pain, there are five main things which happen to their faces: their eyes narrow, their cheeks tighten, their ears fold forwards, their lips pull down and back, and their nostrils change from a U shape to a V shape.
The researchers have developed an AI system which uses five different facial expressions to recognise whether
a sheep is in pain, and estimate the severity of that pain.
Not exact matches
Last week i have
been attacked by a wolf
in sheeps clothing and as you said the
pain is excruciating.
We've documented cattle having their skulls crushed with sledgehammers
in Vietnam,
being hoisted to the ceiling by one leg while still fully sensible to
pain in Turkey and Israel, and
sheep being stuffed into car boots
in scorching heat throughout the Middle East.
Severe
pain in sheep is associated with conditions such as foot rot, an extremely painful and contagious condition which causes the foot to rot away; or mastitis, an inflammation of the udder
in ewes caused by injury or bacterial infection.
In order to make the process of pain detection more accurate, the Cambridge researchers behind the current study used the SPFES as the basis of an AI system which uses machine learning techniques to estimate pain levels in shee
In order to make the process of
pain detection more accurate, the Cambridge researchers behind the current study used the SPFES as the basis of an
AI system which uses machine learning techniques to estimate
pain levels
in shee
in sheep.
«The interesting part
is that you can see a clear analogy between these actions
in the
sheep's faces and similar facial actions
in humans when they
are in pain — there
is a similarity
in terms of the muscles
in their faces and
in our faces,» said co-author Dr Marwa Mahmoud, a postdoctoral researcher
in Robinson's group.
«
AI system to diagnose
pain levels
in sheep.»
Building on earlier work which teaches computers to recognise emotions and expressions
in human faces, the system
is able to detect the distinct parts of a
sheep's face and compare it with a standardised measurement tool developed by veterinarians for diagnosing
pain.
Also, the animals, cattle,
sheep and horses
are in pain due to the shortage of food; grasses, and fresh vegetation and perhaps most vital, water.