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It's A Dog's Life; No More!
Techtree News Staff, Jan 21, 2008 1616 hrs ISTA couple of Hungarian scientists are working on a computer software that will analyze dog barks, enabling human beings to understand their precious pets' emotions.
Though seemingly crazy, many dog lovers tend to converse with their canine friends believing their dogs can decipher what it is they're trying to convey. What you're now going to learn may seem impossible but it might just help you understand what your pet pooch is trying to tell you!
A couple of Hungarian scientists are working on a computer software that will analyze dog barks, enabling human beings to understand their precious pets' emotions.
At Budapest's Elte University, Ethologist Csaba Molnar and his colleagues have tested a software that distinguishes between the emotional reactions of up to fourteen dogs (belonging to the Hungarian Mudi Hearding Breed) to six different situations, like when the dogs are alone or they get to see a ball or they fight or see a stranger or go for a walk, and so on.
The experiment found the computer software to correctly recognize the emotional reactions of these dogs -- based on their barks and yelps -- in 43 percent of the cases. While human beings were found to correctly judge the same emotional reactions in a close 40 percent of the cases.
All said, the study proves that human beings can understand different types of dog barks, even if they don't have any prior experience with the dogs.
Meanwhile, the scientists working on this project say that the computer software can be improved further, and that people can expect commercial applications for dogs-to-men communications in the future.
A couple of Hungarian scientists are working on a computer software that will analyze dog barks, enabling human beings to understand their precious pets' emotions.
At Budapest's Elte University, Ethologist Csaba Molnar and his colleagues have tested a software that distinguishes between the emotional reactions of up to fourteen dogs (belonging to the Hungarian Mudi Hearding Breed) to six different situations, like when the dogs are alone or they get to see a ball or they fight or see a stranger or go for a walk, and so on.
The experiment found the computer software to correctly recognize the emotional reactions of these dogs -- based on their barks and yelps -- in 43 percent of the cases. While human beings were found to correctly judge the same emotional reactions in a close 40 percent of the cases.
All said, the study proves that human beings can understand different types of dog barks, even if they don't have any prior experience with the dogs.
Meanwhile, the scientists working on this project say that the computer software can be improved further, and that people can expect commercial applications for dogs-to-men communications in the future.
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