The automatic detection of dairy cow feeding and standing behaviours in free-stall barns by a computer vision-based system

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 133, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-55

  Porto, Simona M C ^a   Arcidiacono, Claudia ^a   Anguzza, Umberto ^a   Cascone, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cow behavioural activity; Dairy farming; Precision livestock farming; Vision techniques

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER VISION; VIDEO RECORDING;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES; DAIRY FARMING; PRECISION LIVESTOCK FARMING; REAL-TIME DETECTION; VIOLA - JONES ALGORITHMS; VISION BASED SYSTEM; VISION TECHNIQUE;

FEEDING;

EID: 84924942694     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.02.012     Document Type: Article

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