An automatic colour-based computer vision algorithm for tracking the position of piglets;Sistema de visión artificial basado en el color, para el seguimiento de la posición de lechones

Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 535-549

  Navarro Jover, J M ^a   Alcaniz Raya M ^a   Gomez V ^a   Balasch, S ^a   Moreno, J R ^a   Grau Colomer, V ^b   Torres, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal behaviour; Image analysis; Pattern recognition; Piglets activity; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70349871267     PISSN: 1695971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/sjar/2009073-438     Document Type: Article

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