Automated Detection of Cattle Mounting using Side-View Camera

• Yongwha Chung,
• Dongwhee Choi,
• Heesu Choi,
• Daihee Park,
• Hong-Hee Chang,
• Suk Kim,

Vol. 9, No. 8, August 30, 2015
10.3837/tiis.2015.08.024, Download Paper (Free):

• IT-Agriculture
• Estrus detection
• Video monitoring
• Mounting behavior

Abstract

Automatic detection of estrus in cows is important in cattle management. This paper proposes a method of estrus detection by automatically checking cattle mounting. We use a side-view video camera and apply computer vision techniques to detect mounting behavior. In particular, we extract motion information to select a potential mount-up and mount-down motion and then verify the true mounting behavior by considering the direction, magnitude, and history of the mount motion. From experimental results using video data obtained from a Korean native cattle farm, we believe that the proposed method based on the abrupt change of a mounting cow｡ｯs height and motion history information can be utilized for detecting mounting behavior automatically, even in the case of fence occlusion.

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