Evaluation of Step Overlap as an Automatic Measure in Dairy Cow Locomotion

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1305-1312

  Pluk, A ^a   Bahr, C ^a   Leroy, T ^a   Poursaberi, A ^a   Song, X ^a   Vranken, E ^b   Maertens, W ^b   Van Nuffel, A ^b   Berckmans, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Image processing; Locomotion score; Step overlap; Vision

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZES; COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES; DAIRY COW; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; GAIT SCORES; LACTATING COWS; LOCOMOTION ACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION SCORE; STEP OVERLAP;

COMPUTER VISION; VIDEO RECORDING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

BODY SIZE; CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; VIDEOGRAPHY;

BOS;

EID: 77956465845     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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