Application of image based filtering to improve the performance of an automated lameness detection system for dairy cows

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2013, ASABE 2013

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 4660-4668

  Romanini, Carlos E B ^a   Bahr, Claudia ^a   Viazzi, Stefano ^a   Van Hertem, Tom ^b   Schlageter Tello, Andres ^c   Halachmi, Man ^b   Lokhorst, Kees ^c   Berckmans, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D image; Computer vision; Cow features extraction; Filtering; Video quality; Videos pre processing; Walking speed

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; COMPUTER VISION; DECISION TREES; FILTRATION; GAIT ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

3-D IMAGE; FEATURES EXTRACTION; PRE-PROCESSING; VIDEO QUALITY; WALKING SPEED;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84881620808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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