Lying-Pig Detection using Depth Information

In a surveillance camera environment, detecting pigs in a pig room is an important issue in terms of automatic management. In addition, it is important to analyze the area of lying-pigs in order to estimate the temperature of a pig room. However, it is difficult to recognize whether the pigs are lying or standing from RGB data because the data do not have any height information. In this study, we propose a method to detect lying-pigs by using depth information obtained from a 3D Kinect camera. According to the experimental results, we confirmed that the proposed method could detect lying-pigs by using a difference of the depth information between pigs and floor.