Transcript for the video embedded in the Vet-AI case study.
[The screen shows a red and black background with the title ‘University of Leeds KTP Case Studies: Vet AI’.]
[Music]
[Professor David Hogg, Professor of Artificial intelligence in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Professor David Hogg says:] “We're in a transitional moment in terms of the relationship between AI, universities and business. There's a lot of excitement around and it's all really escalated over the last 12 months, 24 months. I'm David Hogg. I'm Professor of Artificial intelligence in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. The KTP involving Vet AI that I've been involved with for the last few years is all about lameness in dogs, trying to take a video clip from a customer and automatically label it according to the degree of severity of lameness.”
[Dr Robert Cooper, Senior AI Developer at Vet-AI, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Dr Robert Cooper says:] “This allows us to detect abnormalities before owners necessarily know that they should take their dogs to the vet. My name's Robert Cooper I'm the Senior AI Developer at Vet AI and before that I did a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Leeds. Working on a KTP bridges the gap between academia and industry. So working on a KTP project gives you a perfect chance to develop your research skills whilst also working in a commercial environment.”
[Paul Hallett, CEO and Co-Founder of Vet-AI, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Paul Hallett says:] My name's Paul Hallett the CEO and Co-founder of Vet AI. I think the KTP’s changed our business because it's enabled us to look longer term. And I think some of the tools that we've created through the KTP and the strategy and the thinking that went into those tools has actually made us futureproof. A lot of dogs and cats actually go untreated for arthritis. So how do we create a tool that engages people and brings them into healthcare?”
[Dr Robert Cooper, Senior AI Developer at Vet-AI, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Dr Robert Cooper says:] “So we worked with a number of different charities to get data for the project including the Dogs Trust. Using a convolutional neural network that takes as input the videos of the dogs walking and also optionally contextual data about the dogs.”
[Professor David Hogg, Professor of Artificial intelligence in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Professor David Hogg says:] “You need to know, for example are you actually looking at a dog in the video? You can look pretty stupid if you take something that's a cat and you come back and say 'This dog looks as though, you know, it's no good'. So it's all of that contextual stuff making sure that the video is actually what you're expecting.”
[Paul Hallett, CEO and Co-Founder of Vet-AI, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Paul Hallett says:] “I'd say the KTP overall is just a very interesting dynamic bringing the stakeholders into that room. I think they're just again, the trifecta of the three working together - and a key word there is working together - means the end result is actually very good, which the KTP result was.”
[The video ends with a screen displaying the text “leeds.ac.uk/ktp”.]