Visitors to a donkey sanctuary will be able to identify their favourite adopted animal using artificial intelligence (AI) and their phone camera, researchers say.
University of Southampton scientists developing the mobile app - being used at the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary - said they hoped it could also help identify health issues in the future.
The app uses a library of hundreds of photographs of the donkeys from every angle, utilising machine-learning and AI to distinguish them from one another.
Development still has a way to go, with the app having a coin-flip accuracy of only 50% at the moment.
But project lead Dr Xiaohao Cai said he was confident it would be much improved and ready for the public to use by the end of the year.
