Automatic cattle identification based on fusion of texture features extracted from muzzle images

Worapan Kusakunniran, Anuwat Wiratsudakul, Udom Chuachan, Sarattha Kanchanapreechakorn, Thanandon Imaromkul

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Abstract

Biometrics have been widely used for human identification, including fingerprint, face and iris because they cannot be easily duplicated. Recently, biometrics have been also used for animal (i.e. cattle in this paper) identification. Individual cattle identification is necessary for many important reasons including determining legal ownership, verifying transferred source, and implementing disease surveillance and control. Popular traditional methods for individual cattle identification are using plastic ear tags or microchips. However, the tag can be deduplicated and it can be dangerous and takes time for the human expert to place the microchip in the cattle. Also, it may hurt the cattle. Thus, in this paper, muzzle print is used as a biometric for automatic cattle identification. The fusion of texture features extracted from the muzzle image is used to represent individual cattle. They are Gabor feature and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) histogram. Gabor features were extracted at the different scales and orientations in specific frequencies, while LBP histogram was extracted for each local sub-image to preserve local spatial textures. Then, Support Vector Machine (SVM) is employed as a classifier. The proposed method is reported with the perfect accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1484-1489
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509059492
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Apr 2018
Event19th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2018 - Lyon, France
Duration: 19 Feb 201822 Feb 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology
Volume2018-February

Conference

Conference19th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2018
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLyon
Period19/02/1822/02/18

Keywords

  • Cattle identification
  • Gabor
  • LBP
  • Muzzle print
  • SVM

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