YOLOX-S-TKECB: A Holstein Cow Identification Detection Algorithm

Hongtao Zhang (), Li Zheng, Lian Tan, Jiahui Gao and Yiming Luo
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Hongtao Zhang: College of Electrical Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450045, China
Li Zheng: College of Electrical Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450045, China
Lian Tan: College of Electrical Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450045, China
Jiahui Gao: College of Electrical Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450045, China
Yiming Luo: College of Electrical Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450045, China

Agriculture, 2024, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: Accurate identification of individual cow identity is a prerequisite for the construction of digital farms and serves as the basis for optimized feeding, disease prevention and control, breed improvement, and product quality traceability. Currently, cow identification faces challenges such as poor recognition accuracy, large data volumes, weak model generalization ability, and low recognition speed. Therefore, this paper proposes a cow identification method based on YOLOX-S-TKECB. (1) Based on the characteristics of Holstein cows and their breeding practices, we constructed a real-time acquisition and preprocessing platform for two-dimensional Holstein cow images and built a cow identification model based on YOLOX-S-TKECB. (2) Transfer learning was introduced to improve the convergence speed and generalization ability of the cow identification model. (3) The CBAM attention mechanism module was added to enhance the model’s ability to extract features from cow torso patterns. (4) The alignment between the apriori frame and the target size was improved by optimizing the clustering algorithm and the multi-scale feature fusion method, thereby enhancing the performance of object detection at different scales. The experimental results demonstrate that, compared to the traditional YOLOX-S model, the improved model exhibits a 15.31% increase in mean average precision (mAP) and a 32-frame boost in frames per second (FPS). This validates the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed YOLOX-S-TKECB-based cow identification algorithm, providing valuable technical support for the application of dairy cow identification in farms.

Keywords: YOLOX-S; Holstein cows; object detection; identification algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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