Real-Time Pig Segmentation for Individual Pig Monitoring in a Weaning Pig Room
Miso Ju, Hansol Baek, Jaewon Sa, Heegon Kim, Yongwha Chung, Daihee Park · Journal of Korea Multimedia Society · 2016
To reduce huge losses in pig farms, weaning pigs with weak immune systems are required to be carefully supervised. Even if various researches have been performed for livestock monitoring environment, segmenting each pig from touching pigs is still entrenched as a difficult problem. In this paper, we propose a real-time segmentation method for moving pigs by using motion information in a 24-h video surveillance system. The experimental results with the videos obtained from a domestic pig farm illustrated the possibility for segmenting by using our proposed method in real-time.