Objective estimation of body condition score by modeling cow body shape from digital images
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Objective estimation of body condition score by modeling cow body shape from digital images.
Body condition score (BCS) is considered an important tool for management of dairy cattle. The feasibility of estimating the BCS from digital images has been demonstrated in recent work. Regression machines have been successfully employed for automatic BCS estimation, taking into account information of the overall shape or information extracted on anatomical points of the shape. Despite the pro...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Dairy Science
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0022-0302
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2010-3467