Real-time recognition of sows in video: A supervised approach

This paper proposes a supervised classification approach for the real-time pattern recognition of sows in an animal supervision system (asup). Our approach offers the possibility of the foreground subtraction in an asup’s image processing module where there is lack of statistical information regardi...

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Main Authors: Ehsan Khoramshahi, Juha Hietaoja, Anna Valros, Jinhyeon Yun, Matti Pastell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-08-01
Series:Information Processing in Agriculture
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214317314000109
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author Ehsan Khoramshahi
Juha Hietaoja
Anna Valros
Jinhyeon Yun
Matti Pastell
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Juha Hietaoja
Anna Valros
Jinhyeon Yun
Matti Pastell
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description This paper proposes a supervised classification approach for the real-time pattern recognition of sows in an animal supervision system (asup). Our approach offers the possibility of the foreground subtraction in an asup’s image processing module where there is lack of statistical information regarding the background. A set of 7 farrowing sessions of sows, during day and night, have been captured (approximately 7 days/sow), which is used for this study. The frames of these recordings have been grabbed with a time shift of 20 s. A collection of 215 frames of 7 different sows with the same lighting condition have been marked and used as the training set. Based on small neighborhoods around a point, a number of image local features are defined, and their separability and performance metrics are compared. For the classification task, a feed-forward neural network (NN) is studied and a realistic configuration in terms of an acceptable level of accuracy and computation time is chosen. The results show that the dense neighborhood feature (d.3 × 3) is the smallest local set of features with an acceptable level of separability, while it has no negative effect on the complexity of NN. The results also confirm that a significant amount of the desired pattern is accurately detected, even in situations where a portion of the body of a sow is covered by the crate’s elements. The performance of the proposed feature set coupled with our chosen configuration reached the rate of 8.5 fps. The true positive rate (TPR) of the classifier is 84.6%, while the false negative rate (FNR) is only about 3%. A comparison between linear logistic regression and NN shows the highly non-linear nature of our proposed set of features.
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spelling doaj.art-70c29f2c81ef4e88bd9e1939e30b54222023-09-02T23:28:04ZengElsevierInformation Processing in Agriculture2214-31732014-08-0111738110.1016/j.inpa.2014.07.002Real-time recognition of sows in video: A supervised approachEhsan Khoramshahi0Juha Hietaoja1Anna Valros2Jinhyeon Yun3Matti Pastell4Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, FinlandFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, FinlandFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, FinlandThis paper proposes a supervised classification approach for the real-time pattern recognition of sows in an animal supervision system (asup). Our approach offers the possibility of the foreground subtraction in an asup’s image processing module where there is lack of statistical information regarding the background. A set of 7 farrowing sessions of sows, during day and night, have been captured (approximately 7 days/sow), which is used for this study. The frames of these recordings have been grabbed with a time shift of 20 s. A collection of 215 frames of 7 different sows with the same lighting condition have been marked and used as the training set. Based on small neighborhoods around a point, a number of image local features are defined, and their separability and performance metrics are compared. For the classification task, a feed-forward neural network (NN) is studied and a realistic configuration in terms of an acceptable level of accuracy and computation time is chosen. The results show that the dense neighborhood feature (d.3 × 3) is the smallest local set of features with an acceptable level of separability, while it has no negative effect on the complexity of NN. The results also confirm that a significant amount of the desired pattern is accurately detected, even in situations where a portion of the body of a sow is covered by the crate’s elements. The performance of the proposed feature set coupled with our chosen configuration reached the rate of 8.5 fps. The true positive rate (TPR) of the classifier is 84.6%, while the false negative rate (FNR) is only about 3%. A comparison between linear logistic regression and NN shows the highly non-linear nature of our proposed set of features.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214317314000109Precision farmingSupervised classificationReal-time image-processingNeural network
spellingShingle Ehsan Khoramshahi
Juha Hietaoja
Anna Valros
Jinhyeon Yun
Matti Pastell
Real-time recognition of sows in video: A supervised approach
Information Processing in Agriculture
Precision farming
Supervised classification
Real-time image-processing
Neural network
title Real-time recognition of sows in video: A supervised approach
title_full Real-time recognition of sows in video: A supervised approach
title_fullStr Real-time recognition of sows in video: A supervised approach
title_full_unstemmed Real-time recognition of sows in video: A supervised approach
title_short Real-time recognition of sows in video: A supervised approach
title_sort real time recognition of sows in video a supervised approach
topic Precision farming
Supervised classification
Real-time image-processing
Neural network
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214317314000109
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