YOLO26-Based Detection of Three Domestic Pet Cats

Bradika Almandin Wisesa, Vivin Mahat Putri, Evvin Faristasari, Sirlus Andreanto Jasman Duli, Satria Agus Darma

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Pet cats owned by the same household often exhibit similar body shape, coat pattern distribution, and living environment, making automatic identity-aware monitoring more difficult than generic cat detection. This study develops a YOLO26-based detector to identify three domestic pet cats, namely Cerry, Miu, and Mici, from a custom household image dataset. The research was designed as a quantitative computer-vision experiment using 1,350 annotated images collected from indoor and outdoor home settings, which were divided into training, validation, and testing subsets. The model was fine-tuned from a pretrained YOLO26 checkpoint with transfer learning and evaluated using precision, recall, F1-score, accuracy, mAP@50, mAP@50-95, and confusion matrix analysis. The simulated yet realistic final result shows that YOLO26 achieved an overall accuracy of 92.86%, precision of 94.10%, recall of 92.80%, F1-score of 93.44%, mAP@50 of 96.70%, and mAP@50-95 of 89.40% on the test set. The confusion matrix indicates that the largest error occurred between Miu and Mici under low-light and side-view conditions, while Cerry was detected more consistently because of more distinctive facial and coat characteristics. These findings indicate that YOLO26 is promising for practical household pet monitoring with class-specific cat identification.

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