Arazo, Eric, Aly, Robin ORCID: 0000-0002-6787-0911 and McGuinness, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0003-1336-6477 (2022) Segmentation enhanced lameness detection in dairy cows from RGB and depth video. In: Workshop on Computer Vision for Animal Behavior Tracking and Modeling (CV4Animals), conference of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 20 June 2022, New Orleans, USA.
Abstract
Cow lameness is a severe condition that affects the life cycle and life quality of dairy cows and results in considerable economic losses. Early lameness detection helps farmers address illnesses early and avoid negative effects caused by the degeneration of cows' condition. We collected a dataset of short clips of cows passing through a hallway exiting a milking station and annotated the degree of lameness of the cows. This paper explores the resulting dataset and provides a detailed description of the data collection process. Additionally, we proposed a lameness detection method that leverages pre-trained neural networks to extract discriminative features from videos and assign a binary score to each cow indicating its condition: ``healthy" or ``lame." We improve this approach by forcing the model to focus on the structure of the cow, which we achieve by substituting the RGB videos with binary segmentation masks predicted with a trained segmentation model. This work aims to encourage research and provide insights into the applicability of computer vision models for cow lameness detection on farms.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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Event Type: | Workshop |
Refereed: | Yes |
Additional Information: | In conjunction with Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Computer vision; Animal farming; Dairy cow; Lameness detection; Video segmentation |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Image processing Computer Science > Machine learning |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering Research Initiatives and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics |
Published in: | CV4Animals: Computer Vision for Animal Behavior Tracking and Modeling, Proceedings. . CV4. |
Publisher: | CV4 |
Official URL: | https://www.cv4animals.com/ |
Copyright Information: | © 2022 The Authors. |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under grant number SFI/15/SIRG/3283 and SFI/12/RC/2289_P2 |
ID Code: | 27302 |
Deposited On: | 17 Jun 2022 13:45 by Eric Arazo Sánchez . Last Modified 16 Nov 2023 13:42 |
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