Detection and Tracking Cows by Computer Vision and Image Classification Methods

In this paper, the cow recognition and traction in video sequences is studied. In the recognition phase, this paper does some discussion and analysis which aim at different classification algorithms and feature extraction algorithms, and cow's detection is transformed into a binary classification problem. The detection method extracts cow's features using a method of multiple feature fusion. These features include edge characters which reflects the cow body contour, grey value, and spatial position relationship. In addition, the algorithm detects the cow body through the classifier which is trained by Gentle Adaboost algorithm. Experiments show that the method has good detection performance when the target has deformation or the contrast between target and background is low. Compared with the general target detection algorithm, this method reduces the miss rate and the detection precision is improved. Detection rate can reach 97.3%. In traction phase, the popular compressive tracking (CT) algorithm is proposed. The learning rate is changed through adaptively calculating the pap distance of image block. Moreover, the update for target model is stopped to avoid introducing error and noise when the classification response values are negative. The experiment results show that the improved tracking algorithm can effectively solve the target model update by mistaken when there are large covers or the attitude is changed frequently. For the detection and tracking of cow body, a detection and tracking framework for the image of cow is built and the detector is combined with the tracking framework. The algorithm test for some video sequences under the complex environment indicates the detection algorithm based on improved compressed perception shows good tracking effect in the changing and complicated background.