Facial Recognition Beyond the Human

Will this work for any animal?  Plants?  What are the needed characteristics of something living that would allow this to consistently work over a period of growth?

Got A.I? Facial recognition now works on cows for better milk
By Hillary Grigonis  In DigitalTrend

Facial recognition is good for more than security features on Facebook and organizing your photo albums — the artificial intelligence-based technology could soon help ensure that milk in your fridge came from a well-fed cow. That’s right, facial recognition now works on cows. This week, agricultural company Cargill and machine-vision company Cainthus announced a partnership that will create an A.I. system for dairy farmers.

The image-recognition system is able to recognize a cow using both the animal’s pattern of spots and the cow’s actual face. The system takes a few seconds to recognize an individual cow, the companies said. ..... " 

Cargill Starts Innovation Center

I am a long-time student of innovation centers, helping found one myself, and remember hearing of Cargill working in this area a few years ago. Now they are finally under way. The description seems to be what one might expect. Much more on innovation centers in this blog. Want to know more? Contact me.

Cargill Innovation Center

Cargill has opened an immersive innovation center, following the lead by other major companies opening innovation centers to both highlight their research and better understand consumer context and behavior. So despite the IBM ads which make fun of needing to have a place to innovate, they are becoming more common.