Estrus sign detection of dairy cows by generating pseudo-mounting images

Abstract

By using barn images taken by a camera installed on the ceiling of the barn, the system automatically detects mounting behavior, which is a clue to detecting signs of estrus in dairy cows, through image recognition.It is difficult to collect actual mounting data because mounting behavior occurs only rarely.In this paper, we learn a two-class classification of whether or not an image is a mounting image by using the overlapped image of two dairy cow images as a pseudo-mounting image.