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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Dynamic Multi-Behaviour, Orientation-Invariant Re-Identification of Holstein-Friesian Cattle.

Maarten Perneel, Ines Adriaens, Jan Verwaeren, Ben Aernouts

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Maarten PerneelDepartment of Biosystems, Division of Animal and Human Health Engineering, KU Leuven, Campus Geel, Kleinhoefstraat 4, 2440 Geel, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-4831-5357
Ines AdriaensDepartment of Biosystems, Division of Animal and Human Health Engineering, KU Leuven, Campus Geel, Kleinhoefstraat 4, 2440 Geel, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-9768-2308
Jan VerwaerenDepartment of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-9978-501X
Ben AernoutsDepartment of Biosystems, Division of Animal and Human Health Engineering, KU Leuven, Campus Geel, Kleinhoefstraat 4, 2440 Geel, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6266-3019

Funding

Onderzoeksprogramma Artificiële Intelligentie (AI) VlaanderenResearch Foundation - Flanders 1131821N
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To perform reliable animal re-identification, most available algorithms require standardised animal poses. However, this lack of versatility prevents widespread application of these algorithms in behavioural research and commercial environments. To circumvent this, we incorporated information about the orientation and behaviour of the animals in an embedding-based algorithm to re-identify Holstein-Friesian cattle. After all, the orientation and behaviour of an animal determine which body parts of an animal are visible from the camera's perspective. We evaluated our approach using a dataset with more than 11,000 instance segments of Holstein-Friesian cattle, but our methodology is readily generalisable to different animal species. Our results show that incorporation of informative metadata parameters in the re-identification procedure increases the rank-1 re-identification accuracy from 0.822 to 0.894, corresponding to a 40% reduction in the number of incorrectly identified animals.

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Behavior, AnimalAlgorithmsAnimalsCattlebehaviour classificationcattlepose estimationre-identification

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PMID40431766
PMCPMC12114968

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