Abstract:Animal dimensions are important indicators for monitoring the growth rates, diet efficiency, and health status of animals. A computer vision system is one of the recently emerging precision livestock farming technologies to overcome the previously unresolved challenges pertaining to labor and cost. It is common practice to collect top-view depth images for evaluating body mass or conformation traits. However, in the depth image data acquisition process, some manual interventions are often involved for controll… Show more
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