Assessment of retinal recognition technology as a biometric method for sheep identification

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 156-166

  Gonzales Barron, U ^a   Corkery, G ^a   Barry, B ^a   Butler, F ^a   McDonnell, K ^a   Ward, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Identification; Multimodal; Retina; Sheep; Traceability

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECOGNITION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MODAL ANALYSIS; PATTERN MATCHING;

RETINAL IMAGES; RETINAL RECOGNITION; TRACEABILITY;

BIOMETRICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOMETRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BOS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 38149099873     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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