improvements for providing those stray animals
loving and caring homes or shelters. The images
Millions of people adopt homeless pets daily.
The visual appeal in the picture attract the
people strongly. Picture contains a lot of
information. We are hoping to use attractive pet
images to save their lives. The goal is to make
the quality and appearance of picture better by
applying different image processing techniques.
A large number of stray animals are concerned
as a part of public health. Thousands of those
animals suffer on streets and some are put to
death humanely by people. Population of stray
animals is increasing drastically due to many
social reasons. There is a need of considering
the ways to provide shelters to those stray
animals so as to decrease diseases in them and
to reduce their painful deaths in order to not only
work for their welfare but also reducing risks of
diseases due to them in humans. Most of the
people expect the animals with cute and
attractive photos get adopted faster with more
ease.
Image processing and segmentation techniques
are applied using different methodologies like
region based enhancement, colour based
enhancement, shape based enhancement,
texture based enhancement and edge based
enhancement.
Image popularity is related to the estimation of
rating scores with respect to different factors.
The factors include visual content, proper
appearance, brightness, resolution and other
details. These features must be considered
wisely in the prediction. Along with these
features extraction, the selection of appropriate
model for prediction is very much crucial.
We are addressing this problem by collecting a
huge dataset containing thousands of raw
images of animals from Kaggle. Using image
processing and data science, photos of these
stray animals can help suggesting any
The model will analyze the color, dimensions
and pixel detail of each picture to estimate
image popularity scores. In CNN model, each
input is actually a pixel of the images that are
being processed using the algorithm. All the
of several animals adopted as pets and those
who are stray animals and their metadata will be
analyzed to predict which images are popular.
Machine Learning model will be implemented on
the datasets containing thousands of animal raw
images and the dataset will be split into a
balanced ratio of training and testing set. Many
Machine Learning approaches have been used
for image processing and predictions like
Support Vector Machines, Artificial Neural
Networks, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks
and Regression analysis etc. We are planning
to use Convolutional Neural Networks technique
for pet image processing. For analyzing visual
imagery in detail, space invariant or shift
invariant Artificial neural networks which are
based on the shared-weight architecture are
used. Instead of applying classical image
processing, our idea is to automatically extract
features for classifying the animals in images.
This idea is defined on a method that is not
human-defined algorithm based.
A convolution neural network uses a
differentiable network that has a sequence of
layers each with simple API. Each 3D volume
from input layer is transformed to output 3D
layer.
Fig 1: Convolution Neural Network model
features of each image will be checked as
inputs. Data will be stratified in a balance ratio of
training and testing sets. Validation phase would
include the testing of final model.