Real-time automatic lameness detection based on back posture extraction in dairy cattle: Shape analysis of cow with image processing techniques

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 110-119

  Poursaberi, A ^a   Bahr, C ^a   Pluk, A ^a   Van Nuffel, A ^b   Berckmans, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Instituut voor Landbouw en Visserijonderz Eenheid Technologie en Voeding Agrotechniek   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Back posture assessment; Dairy cattle; Image processing; Lameness detection

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; BELGIUM; BINARIZATIONS; CLASSIC ALGORITHM; COMMON PROBLEMS; DAIRY CATTLE; DAIRY CATTLES; DAIRY FARMS; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; LAMENESS DETECTION; MOVING OBJECTS; NONUNIFORM; POSTURE ASSESSMENT; SHAPE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL FILTERING;

ALGEBRA; FARMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION);

DAIRIES;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BODY SHAPE; CATTLE; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; DISABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WALKING;

BOS;

EID: 77956944255     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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