README.md

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title: CatMood - AI Cat Emotion & Health
emoji: 😺
colorFrom: indigo
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.16.0
python_version: '3.11'
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: apache-2.0

CatMood - AI-Powered Cat Emotion Recognition & Health Assessment

Upload a cat face photo to detect emotion. Contribute data to unlock more features!

Features

• Emotion Recognition (Phase 1 - Available Now): ViT-based model recognizing 7 cat emotions
• Body Metrics & FBMI (Phase 2 - Crowdsourcing): Calculate Feline Body Mass Index
• Behavior Log (Phase 2 - Crowdsourcing): Track behavioral indicators linked to diseases
• Voice Analysis (Phase 3 - Crowdsourcing): Cat vocalization emotion analysis
• Multi-modal Health Assessment (Phase 4 - Crowdsourcing): Combined health evaluation

Scientific Foundation

All data collection is guided by peer-reviewed veterinary research including:

• Feline Grimace Scale (Evangelista et al. 2019)
• FBMI body fat estimation (Witzel et al. 2014)
• BCS-disease associations (Teng et al. 2018)
• Sleeping respiratory rate for heart failure prediction (Porciello et al. 2016)

Model

Based on semihdervis/cat-emotion-classifier - a ViT-base model fine-tuned on cat emotion images.