A cattle management system using image processing technology has been proposed to reduce the labor burden of livestock farmers and improve management efficiency. To make cattle management using image processing more efficient, individual identification is necessary. Therefore, we focused on the 10-digit individual identification number given to each cow. In this study, face detection is first performed using YOLOv8, and ear regions are set from the detected face regions. The ear tag region is extracted from the ear region using color information, and the individual identification number on the ear tag is read. The identification result of the ear tag number may not be correctly identified due to the fact that a part of the ear tag is not captured due to the movement of the face or ear. Therefore, we proposed a mechanism to give a confidence score to the character identification results, update the ear tag number identification results, and obtain the ear tag number correctly, and confirmed its effectiveness through a demonstration experiment.

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Automated Cattle Identification via Image-Based Ear Tag Recognition

  • Yuichiro Shimizu,
  • Thi Thi Zin,
  • Masaru Aikawa,
  • Ikuo Kobayashi

摘要

A cattle management system using image processing technology has been proposed to reduce the labor burden of livestock farmers and improve management efficiency. To make cattle management using image processing more efficient, individual identification is necessary. Therefore, we focused on the 10-digit individual identification number given to each cow. In this study, face detection is first performed using YOLOv8, and ear regions are set from the detected face regions. The ear tag region is extracted from the ear region using color information, and the individual identification number on the ear tag is read. The identification result of the ear tag number may not be correctly identified due to the fact that a part of the ear tag is not captured due to the movement of the face or ear. Therefore, we proposed a mechanism to give a confidence score to the character identification results, update the ear tag number identification results, and obtain the ear tag number correctly, and confirmed its effectiveness through a demonstration experiment.