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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Livestock Identification Using Deep Learning for Traceability.

Hai Ho Dac, Claudia Gonzalez Viejo, Nir Lipovetzky, Eden Tongson, Frank R Dunshea, Sigfredo Fuentes

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Research trends in livestock facial identification: a review.Journal of animal science and technology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Hai Ho DacDigital Agriculture, Food and Wine Sciences Group, School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3352-2457
Claudia Gonzalez ViejoDigital Agriculture, Food and Wine Sciences Group, School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9207-9307
Nir LipovetzkySchool of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8667-3681
Eden TongsonDigital Agriculture, Food and Wine Sciences Group, School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
Frank R DunsheaDigital Agriculture, Food and Wine Sciences Group, School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3998-1240
Sigfredo FuentesDigital Agriculture, Food and Wine Sciences Group, School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0377-5085
The University of Melbourne · AUUniversity of Leeds · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Farm livestock identification and welfare assessment using non-invasive digital technology have gained interest in agriculture in the last decade, especially for accurate traceability. This study aimed to develop a face recognition system for dairy farm cows using advanced deep-learning models and computer vision techniques. This approach is non-invasive and potentially applicable to other farm animals of importance for identification and welfare assessment. The video analysis pipeline follows standard human face recognition systems made of four significant steps: (i) face detection, (ii) face cropping, (iii) face encoding, and (iv) face lookup. Three deep learning (DL) models were used within the analysis pipeline: (i) face detector, (ii) landmark predictor, and (iii) face encoder. All DL models were finetuned through transfer learning on a dairy cow dataset collected from a robotic dairy farm located in the Dookie campus at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Results showed that the accuracy across videos from 89 different dairy cows achieved an overall accuracy of 84%. The computer program developed may be deployed on edge devices, and it was tested on NVIDIA Jetson Nano board with a camera stream. Furthermore, it could be integrated into welfare assessment previously developed by our research group.

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DairyingDeep LearningAgricultureAnimalsCattleFarmsFemaleHumansLivestockcomputer visioncow identification systemdeep learning in agricultureedge computing

Identifiers

PMID36365954
PMCPMC9655446
OpenAlexW4307940012

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