Online lameness detection in dairy cattle using Body Movement Pattern (BMP)

International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 732-736

  Poursaberi, Ahmad ^a   Bahr, Claudia ^a   Pluk, Arno ^a   Berckmans, Daniel ^a   Veermäe, Imbi ^b   Kokin, Eugen ^b   Pokalainen, Väino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Body Movement Pattern; Dairy cattle; Image processing; Lameness

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENTS; COMMERCIAL FARMS; DAIRY CATTLE; DAIRY CATTLES; ESTONIA; HEAD POSITION; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; LAMENESS; LAMENESS DETECTION; REAL TIME;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84857588702     PISSN: 21647143     EISSN: 21647151     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISDA.2011.6121743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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