Emma M. Baxter
Towards on-farm pig face recognition using convolutional neural networks
Baxter, Emma M.; Salter, Michael G.; Smith, Lyndon N.; Smith, Melvyn L.; Hansen, Mark F.; Hansen, Mark F; Smith, Melvyn; Smith, Lyndon; Salter, Michael; Baxter, Emma; Farish, Marianne; Grieve, Bruce
Authors
Michael G. Salter
Lyndon N. Smith
Melvyn L. Smith
Mark F. Hansen
Mark Hansen Mark.Hansen@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Knowledge Exchange & External Engagement
Melvyn Smith Melvyn.Smith@uwe.ac.uk
Research Centre Director Vision Lab/Prof
Lyndon Smith Lyndon.Smith@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Computer Simulation and Machine
Michael Salter
Emma Baxter
Marianne Farish
Bruce Grieve
Abstract
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Identification of individual livestock such as pigs and cows has become a pressing issue in recent years as intensification practices continue to be adopted and precise objective measurements are required (e.g. weight). Current best practice involves the use of RFID tags which are time-consuming for the farmer and distressing for the animal to fit. To overcome this, non-invasive biometrics are proposed by using the face of the animal. We test this in a farm environment, on 10 individual pigs using three techniques adopted from the human face recognition literature: Fisherfaces, the VGG-Face pre-trained face convolutional neural network (CNN) model and our own CNN model that we train using an artificially augmented data set. Our results show that accurate individual pig recognition is possible with accuracy rates of 96.7% on 1553 images. Class Activated Mapping using Grad-CAM is used to show the regions that our network uses to discriminate between pigs.
Citation
Baxter, E. M., Salter, M. G., Smith, L. N., Smith, M. L., Hansen, M. F., Hansen, M. F., …Grieve, B. (2018). Towards on-farm pig face recognition using convolutional neural networks. Computers in Industry, 98, 145-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2018.02.016
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 14, 2018 |
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Mar 6, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 2, 2020 |
Journal | Computers in Industry |
Print ISSN | 0166-3615 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 98 |
Pages | 145-152 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2018.02.016 |
Keywords | pig face recognition, deep learning, convolutional neural network, biometrics |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/871470 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2018.02.016 |
Additional Information | Corporate Creators : AB Agri, SRUC, Manchester University |
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