Counting Without Numbers and Finding Without Words
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| author | Patro, Badri Narayana |
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| contents | Every year, 10 million pets enter shelters, separated from their families. Despite desperate searches by both guardians and lost animals, 70% never reunite, not because matches do not exist, but because current systems look only at appearance, while animals recognize each other through sound. We ask, why does computer vision treat vocalizing species as silent visual objects? Drawing on five decades of cognitive science showing that animals perceive quantity approximately and communicate identity acoustically, we present the first multimodal reunification system integrating visual and acoustic biometrics. Our species-adaptive architecture processes vocalizations from 10Hz elephant rumbles to 4kHz puppy whines, paired with probabilistic visual matching that tolerates stress-induced appearance changes. This work demonstrates that AI grounded in biological communication principles can serve vulnerable populations that lack human language. |
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| spellingShingle | Counting Without Numbers and Finding Without Words Patro, Badri Narayana Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Social and Information Networks Every year, 10 million pets enter shelters, separated from their families. Despite desperate searches by both guardians and lost animals, 70% never reunite, not because matches do not exist, but because current systems look only at appearance, while animals recognize each other through sound. We ask, why does computer vision treat vocalizing species as silent visual objects? Drawing on five decades of cognitive science showing that animals perceive quantity approximately and communicate identity acoustically, we present the first multimodal reunification system integrating visual and acoustic biometrics. Our species-adaptive architecture processes vocalizations from 10Hz elephant rumbles to 4kHz puppy whines, paired with probabilistic visual matching that tolerates stress-induced appearance changes. This work demonstrates that AI grounded in biological communication principles can serve vulnerable populations that lack human language. |
| title | Counting Without Numbers and Finding Without Words |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24470 |