An estimated ** million households in the United States owned at least one dog according to a 2024/25 pet owners survey, making them the most widely owned type of pet across the U.S. at this time. Cats and freshwater fish ranked in second and third places, with around ** million and ** million households owning such pets, respectively. Freshwater vs. salt water fish Freshwater fish spend most or all their lives in fresh water. Fresh water’s main difference to salt water is the level of salinity. Freshwater fish have a range of physiological adaptations to enable them to live in such conditions. As the statistic makes clear, Americans keep a large number of freshwater aquatic species at home as pets. American pet owners In 2023, around ** percent of all households in the United States owned a pet. This is a decrease from 2020, but still around a ** percent increase from 1988. It is no surprise that as more and more households own pets, pet industry expenditure has also witnessed steady growth. Expenditure reached over *** billion U.S. dollars in 2022, almost a sixfold increase from 1998. The majority of pet product sales are still made in brick-and-mortar stores, despite the rise and evolution of e-commerce in the United States.

Dogs and cats have become the most important and successful pets through long-term domestication. People keep them for various reasons, such as their functional roles or for physical or psychological support. However, why humans are so attached to dogs and cats remains unclear. A comprehensive understanding of the current state of human preferences for dogs and cats and the potential influential factors behind it is required. Here, we investigate this question using two independent online datasets and anonymous questionnaires in China. We find that current human preferences for dog and cat videos are relatively higher than for most other interests, with video plays ranking among the top three out of fifteen interests. We also find genetic variations, gender, age, and economic development levels notably influence human preferences for dogs and cats. Specifically, dog and cat ownership are significantly associated with parents’ pet ownership of dogs and cats (Spearman’s rank correlation c..., , , # Human preferences for dogs and cats in China: the current situation and influencing factors of watching online videos and pet ownership

https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qfttdz0rr

This dataset contains three CSV data files, each corresponding to one of the three parts described in the study.

Description of the data and file structure

**“1, bilibili.csv†**: contains data extracted from the Bilibili website. Each row in the dataset represents yearly data for each popular channel. Missing data are indicated with NA.

• ID:Â The serial number for each video, ranging from 1 to 167368.
• year: The year the video was published on the website, from 2009 to 2021.
• Videourl:Â The URL of the video.
• plays:Â The total number of plays for the video.
• likes: The total number of likes for the video.
• sort: The ranking of the video in terms of play count among all popular videos in its channel for that year.
• channelID: The I...

Cat Dog Person

## Overview

Cat Dog Person is a dataset for object detection tasks - it contains Cat Dog Person annotations for 815 images.

## Getting Started

You can download this dataset for use within your own projects, or fork it into a workspace on Roboflow to create your own model.

  ## License

  This dataset is available under the [CC BY 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/CC BY 4.0).

This dataset contains written responses about Finnish people's experiences with pets in childhood and in the present. Most of the memories concern cats and dogs, but stories about other pets are included as well. The respondents wrote about the role of the pet in the family and interaction with the pet, for instance. They also wrote about having to give up the pet or put it down as well as emotions relating to these situations. Many respondents reminisced pets in childhood homes and how their attitudes towards pets had changed over decades. The dataset comprises 72 responses. Some respondents also attached pictures of their pets. The data collection was organised by the Academy of Finland's research project "Animal Agency in Human Society: Finnish Perspectives, 1890 - 2040", Human-Animal Studies network at the University of Eastern Finland, author Reetta Niemelä, and Finnish Literature Society. Background information includes age, gender, occupation and place of residence. The data were organised into an easy to use html version at FSD. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Context

This dataset was created when I practiced webscraping.

Content

The data is a compilation of information on dogs who were available for adoption on December 12, 2019 in the Hungarian Database of Homeless Pets. In total, there were 2,937 dogs in the database. It contains information on dogs' names, breed, color, age, sex, the date they were found, and some characteristics of their personalities.

Inspiration

I thought it would be interesting to have a dataset that looks at adoptable dogs' characteristics. It is not really well-suited for prediction, but could be a good practice dataset for data visualization and working with categorical data.

This dataset was collated to understand, in a nutshell, how stray pets are taken into the animal shelter system, how they are processed, and what are their outcomes. Answering these questions are important because understanding the distribution and features of stray pet populations can help in developing targeted interventions to manage these animal populations more compassionately, therefore improving the quality of their lives. Better animal management may also lead to more favorable public health outcomes for human populations as well. This project was influenced by my parents, who struggled with understanding options for pet care as they grew older.

https://github.com/sganes21/Dataset-Final-Project

This dataset provides historical stock market performance data for specific companies. It enables users to analyze and understand the past trends and fluctuations in stock prices over time. This information can be utilized for various purposes such as investment analysis, financial research, and market trend forecasting.

This dataset is a modelled dataset, describing the predicted population of dogs per postcode district (e.g. YO41). This dataset gives the mean estimate for population for each district, and was generated as part of the delivery of commissioned research. The data contained within this dataset are modelled figures, based on national estimates for pet population, and available information on Veterinary activity across GB. The data are accurate as of 01/01/2015. The data provided are summarised to the postcode district level. Further information on this research is available in a research publication by James Aegerter, David Fouracre & Graham C. Smith, discussing the structure and density of pet cat and dog populations across Great Britain.

Survey data assessing public attitudes to those living in poverty as a function of the presence or absence of a pet, and support for social service policies on access to pets.

Here are a few use cases for this project:

1. "Pet Identification App": The model can be used to create an application that helps users identify the breed of their pets or stray dogs. It would be useful for new pet owners, pet shelters, or people considering adoption/rescue.

2. "Dog Breed Study Research": For researchers studying canine genetics, behaviors, or diseases, this model would provide an efficient tool for recognizing different breeds, helping to collect data faster and more accurately.

3. "Virtual Dog Show": In virtual dog shows, this model could be employed to identify and classify the breeds. It could be implemented as part of the pre-judging process to ensure eligibility based on breed.

4. "Lost and Found Assistance": The model could be applied in a lost and found system to identify the breed of lost dogs, helping pet owners and shelters to more rapidly track missing pets.

5. "Pet Service Customization": Businesses offering pet services (like grooming, dog walking, or boarding) could use the model for identifying dog breeds to tailor their services more accurately according to the distinct needs of different breeds.

In this competition, you'll write an algorithm to classify whether images contain either a dog or a cat. This is easy for humans, dogs, and cats. Your computer will find it a bit more difficult.

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The Asirra data set

Web services are often protected with a challenge that's supposed to be easy for people to solve, but difficult for computers. Such a challenge is often called a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) or HIP (Human Interactive Proof). HIPs are used for many purposes, such as to reduce email and blog spam and prevent brute-force attacks on web site passwords.

Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) is a HIP that works by asking users to identify photographs of cats and dogs. This task is difficult for computers, but studies have shown that people can accomplish it quickly and accurately. Many even think it's fun! Here is an example of the Asirra interface:

Asirra is unique because of its partnership with Petfinder.com, the world's largest site devoted to finding homes for homeless pets. They've provided Microsoft Research with over three million images of cats and dogs, manually classified by people at thousands of animal shelters across the United States. Kaggle is fortunate to offer a subset of this data for fun and research. Image recognition attacks

While random guessing is the easiest form of attack, various forms of image recognition can allow an attacker to make guesses that are better than random. There is enormous diversity in the photo database (a wide variety of backgrounds, angles, poses, lighting, etc.), making accurate automatic classification difficult. In an informal poll conducted many years ago, computer vision experts posited that a classifier with better than 60% accuracy would be difficult without a major advance in the state of the art. For reference, a 60% classifier improves the guessing probability of a 12-image HIP from 1/4096 to 1/459. State of the art

The current literature suggests machine classifiers can score above 80% accuracy on this task [1]. Therfore, Asirra is no longer considered safe from attack. We have created this contest to benchmark the latest computer vision and deep learning approaches to this problem. Can you crack the CAPTCHA? Can you improve the state of the art? Can you create lasting peace between cats and dogs?

Submission Format

Your submission should have a header. For each image in the test set, predict a label for its id (1 = dog, 0 = cat):

id,label 1,0 2,0 3,0 etc...

About This Dataset

The Roboflow Thermal Dogs and People dataset is a collection of 203 thermal infrared images captured at various distances from people and dogs in a park and near a home. Some images are deliberately unannotated as they do not contain a person or dog (see the Dataset Health Check for more). Images were captured both portrait and landscape. (Roboflow auto-orient assures the annotations align regardless of the image orientation.)

Thermal images were captured using the Seek Compact XR Extra Range Thermal Imaging Camera for iPhone. The selected color palette is Spectra.

Example

This is an example image and annotation from the dataset: https://i.imgur.com/h9vhrqB.png" alt="Man and Dog">

Usage

Thermal images have a wide array of applications: monitoring machine performance, seeing in low light conditions, and adding another dimension to standard RGB scenarios. Infrared imaging is useful in security, wildlife detection,and hunting / outdoors recreation.

This dataset serves as a way to experiment with infrared images in Roboflow. (Or, you could build your own night time pet finder!)

Collecting Custom Data

Roboflow is happy to improve your operations with infrared imaging and computer vision. Services range from data collection to building automated monitoring systems leveraging computer vision. Reach out for more.

About Roboflow

Roboflow makes managing, preprocessing, augmenting, and versioning datasets for computer vision seamless. :fa-spacer: Developers reduce 50% of their boilerplate code when using Roboflow's workflow, save training time, and increase model reproducibility. :fa-spacer:

Incidents responded to by the Baton Rouge Animal Control and Rescue Center (ACRC). ACRC is responsible for carrying out duties related to animal-related situations, including: administering the anti-rabies vaccination, licensing, and tag program; investigating animal cruelty incidents; investigating dog fighting; resolving dangerous animal situations; rescuing injured animals; investigating abandoned animal cases; investigating occult, animal sacrifice, and bestiality cases; resolving stray animal situations; enforcing the leash law and owned animal problems; assisting law enforcement with narcotics, evictions, and DWI cases; enforcing barking dog cases; inspecting dog yards/pens; chaining or tethering compliance; assisting animal welfare groups with feral interventions; and conducting educational programs. As many of the incidents included within this data set involve active cases that are currently under investigation and computerized system limitations do not allow for automated screening of open/closed cases, the identity of animal owners is redacted to protect the privacy of the animal owner. Members of the public interested in the identity of a specific incident may contact ACRC directly to inquire about the incident and, if it is closed, ACRC will release a copy of the file to the person requesting it. However, location data regarding where the incident was reported or occurred is included within this data set, which may or may not be the same location as the animal owner's home or property. In addition, to protect the identity of the complainant (person filing the complaint or alerting ACRC to a potential incident), only the complainant's street name is included as part of this data set. Finally, while all incidents are updated on a daily basis, incidents involving animal cruelty are updated based on a rolling 30-day delay to allow for ACRC to investigate the incident and make a determination as to the validity of the cruelty complaint.

Cat&dog&people

## Overview

Cat&dog&people is a dataset for object detection tasks - it contains Cats annotations for 612 images.

## Getting Started

You can download this dataset for use within your own projects, or fork it into a workspace on Roboflow to create your own model.

  ## License

  This dataset is available under the [CC BY 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/CC BY 4.0).

This dataset contains the 10 yearly statistics of pedigree dog litter registrations submitted to the UK Kennel Club. There is also supplementary information on each dog breed that may be used to provide insight on the increase and decline of various breeds' popularity.

This dataset offers opportunities for exploratory data analysis, data visualisation and simple NLP, as well as predictive capability.

Some thoughts for analysis: + What commonalities are found within breed groups? + Can we predict which dog breeds are likely to become vulnerable? + What trends can we see in the emerging popularity of certain breeds? + Is demand in line with certain characteristics?

The UK Kennel Club recognises 221 pedigree dog breeds; this small dataset is suitable for beginners and intermediate individuals. Additional variables may be added in the future for more advanced analysis.

Pets can provide many benefits, especially during times of stress. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, special consideration should be given to animals that reside in or visit long-term care homes (LTCHs), where COVID-19 may transmit more easily and people are at risk of more severe disease. This document has additional measures aimed to include pets in the management of the risks for spreading COVID-19.

This dashboard shows information about how the Pet passports service is currently performing.

This is a "beta" service. The dashboard shows number of digital transactions, total cost of transactions, cost per transaction and take-up of digital services. Performance Dashboards are likely to be used by many people, including:

government service managers and their teams journalists students and researchers members of the public interested in how public services are performing The service also provides the option of a download of the data. Attribution statement:

Started out as a pumpkin detector to test training YOLOv5. Now suffering from extensive feature creep and probably ending up as a cat/dog/spider/pumpkin/randomobjects-detector. Or as a desaster.

The dataset does not fit https://docs.ultralytics.com/tutorials/training-tips-best-results/ well. There are no background images and the labeling is often only partial. Especially in the humans and pumpkin category where there are often lots of objects in one photo people apparently (and understandably) got bored and did not labe everything. And of course the images from the cat-category don't have the humans in it labeled since they come from a cat-identification model which ignored humans. It will need a lot of time to fixt that.

Dataset used: - Cat and Dog Data: Cat / Dog Tutorial NVIDIA Jetson https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-inference/blob/master/docs/pytorch-cat-dog.md © 2016-2019 NVIDIA according to bottom of linked page - Spider Data: Kaggle Animal 10 image set https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/alessiocorrado99/animals10 Animal pictures of 10 different categories taken from google images Kaggle project licensed GPL 2 - Pumpkin Data: Kaggle "Vegetable Images" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352846889_DCNN-Based_Vegetable_Image_Classification_Using_Transfer_Learning_A_Comparative_Study https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/misrakahmed/vegetable-image-dataset Kaggle project licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 - Some pumpkin images manually copied from google image search - https://universe.roboflow.com/chess-project/chess-sample-rzbmc Provided by a Roboflow user License: CC BY 4.0 - https://universe.roboflow.com/steve-pamer-cvmbg/pumpkins-gfjw5 Provided by a Roboflow user License: CC BY 4.0 - https://universe.roboflow.com/nbduy/pumpkin-ryavl Provided by a Roboflow user License: CC BY 4.0 - https://universe.roboflow.com/homeworktest-wbx8v/cat_test-1x0bl/dataset/2 - https://universe.roboflow.com/220616nishikura/catdetector - https://universe.roboflow.com/atoany/cats-s4d4i/dataset/2 - https://universe.roboflow.com/personal-vruc2/agricultured-ioth22 - https://universe.roboflow.com/sreyoshiworkspace-radu9/pet_detection - https://universe.roboflow.com/artyom-hystt/my-dogs-lcpqe - license: Public Domain url: https://universe.roboflow.com/dolazy7-gmail-com-3vj05/sweetpumpkin/dataset/2 - https://universe.roboflow.com/tristram-dacayan/social-distancing-g4pbu - https://universe.roboflow.com/fyp-3edkl/social-distancing-2ygx5 License MIT - Spiders: https://universe.roboflow.com/lucas-lins-souza/animals-train-yruka

Currently I can't guarantee it's all correctly licenced. Checks are in progress. Inform me if you see one of your pictures and want it to be removed!

Context

Primarily the data was taken from roboflow and the annotation masks were prepared manually by me to be used for few-shot learning instance segmentation.

Content

The folders contain 3 zip file train: Containing training images. validation: Contains validation images. coco annotations: contacting annotations for the train and validation in MS-COCO JSON format.

Acknowledgements

The dataset is primarily taken from roboflow and then processed by me. So, I heartily thank roboflow team to provide us such datasets with which we can try different tasks.

Inspiration

At this time, instance segmentation is largely used by ML/DL developers. Also, there is a huge data in the market for free, which can be gathered and creating several datasets which will help us find new techniques to form new ideas as well as refining the current SOTA techniques or models. The researchers out there is the true inspiration who publish new papers so that the industry can adopt advanced futuristic works and make production fly to the sky.

Important Point

The dataset has been prepared for few-shot learning.

Here are a few use cases for this project:

1. Pet Adoption Agencies: To streamline the process of pairing dogs with potential adopters based on captured images. For instance, a person's image could help the system suggest dogs that are comfortable around people with certain attributes like age or gender.

2. Training Assistance: Dog trainers or pet shops could use this model to create or augment training modules. By understanding the dog-human interaction through images, they could get insights into the behavior of different breeds and develop better training techniques.

3. Security Applications: This model could be integrated into security systems to differentiate between human and dog movement. The system can then alert homeowners only to human intruders, reducing false alarms triggered by pet movement.

4. Smart Home Automation: In smart homes, based on the identification of the individual (dog or human), the system could adjust the settings accordingly. For instance, if a dog is identified in a specific room, it could adjust the temperature or play certain calming sounds.

5. Animal Shelter Management: The model could help in managing shelters better by identifying dogs and humans, and monitoring their interaction frequency. It could provide data on which dogs are being ignored, ensuring all animals get equal attention.