Using muzzle pattern recognition as a biometric approach for cattle identification

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1073-1080

  Barry, Brendan ^a   Gonzales Barron, Ursula A ^a   McDonnell, Kevin ^a   Butler, Francis ^a   Ward, Shane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Cattle traceability; Identification; Image analysis; Muzzle; Recognition

Indexed keywords

CATTLE TRACEABILITY; MUZZLE PATTERN;

ALGORITHMS; DAIRIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN MATCHING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRICS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BIOMETRY; CATTLE; DIGITAL IMAGE; EIGENVALUE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 34447504901     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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