Deep Learning based Individual Cattle Face Recognition using Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning
     
Yazarlar (5)
Havva Eylem Polat
Ankara Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Dilara Gerdan Koç
Ankara University, Türkiye
Doç. Dr. Ömer ERTUĞRUL Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Caner Koç
Ankara University, Türkiye
Kamil Ekinci
Isparta Uygulamalı Bilimler Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Tarım Bilimleri Dergisi (Q3)
Dergi ISSN 1300-7580 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 01-2025
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 31 / 1 / 137–150 DOI 10.15832/ankutbd.1509798
Makale Linki https://doi.org/10.15832/ankutbd.1509798
Özet
Accurate identification of cattle is essential for monitoring ownership, controlling production supply, preventing disease, and ensuring animal welfare. Despite the widespread use of ear tag-based techniques in livestock farm management, large-scale farms encounter challenges in identifying individual cattle. The process of identifying individual animals can be hindered by ear tags that fall off, and the ability to identify them over a long period of time becomes impossible when tags are missing. A dataset was generated by capturing images of cattle in their native environment to tackle this issue. The dataset was divided into three segments: training, validation, and testing. The dataset consisted of 15 000 records, each pertaining to a distinct bovine specimen from a total of 30 different cattle. To identify specific cattle faces in this study, deep learning algorithms such as InceptionResNetV2, MobileNetV2, DenseNet201, Xception, and NasNetLarge were utilized. The DenseNet201 algorithm attained a peak test accuracy of 99.53% and a validation accuracy of 99.83%. Additionally, this study introduces a novel approach that integrates advanced image processing techniques with deep learning, providing a robust framework that can potentially be applied to other domains of animal identification, thus enhancing overall farm management and biosecurity.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Cattle identification | Deep learning | Face detection | Smart farming