• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2022

Precision livestock monitoring promises greater management efficiency for farmers and higher welfare standards for animals. Recent studies on video-based animal activity recognition and tracking have shown promising solutions for understanding animal behavior. To achieve that, surveillance cameras are installed diagonally above the barn in a typical cattle farm setup to monitor animals constantly. Under these circumstances, tracking individuals requires addressing challenges such as occlusion and visual appearance, which are the main reasons for track breakage and increased misidentification of animals. This paper presents a framework for multi-cattle tracking in closed barns with appearance and motion models. To overcome the above challenges, we modify the DeepSORT algorithm to achieve higher tracking accuracy by three contributions. First, we reduce the weight of appearance information. Second, we use an Ensemble Kalman Filter to predict the random motion information of cattle. Third, we propose a supplementary matching algorithm that compares the absolute cattle position in the barn to reassign lost tracks. The main idea of the matching algorithm assumes that the number of cattle is fixed in the barn, so the edge of the barn is where new trajectories are most likely to emerge. Experimental results are performed on our dataset collected on two cattle farms. Our algorithm achieves 70.37%, 77.39%, and 81.74% performance on HOTA, AssA, and IDF1, representing an improvement of 1.53%, 4.17%, and 0.96%, respectively, compared to the original method.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.136-144
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• 2024

최근 IT 기술의 급속한 발전과, 인구노령화에 따른 노동력 부족에 대한 다양한 방안들이 나타난다. 축산업에서도 인공지능 기술을 활용하여 관리하는 시스템들이 늘어나고 있다. 제안하는 메타버스 기반의 스마트 축사 시스템은 디지털 가상 세계와 첨단 농업 기술의 결합으로 구성된 시스템이다. 이 시스템을 통해, 특별한 상황에서는 농부들은 축사에 직접 방문하지 않고도 동물의 상태를 실시간으로 모니터링할 수 있으며, 센서와 카메라를 통해 수집된 데이터를 분석하여 보다 효율적인 농업 경영이 가능하다. 추가적으로, 원격 제어 기능을 통해 축사 환경의 조절이 가능하며, 이는 노동력 절감과 축산업의 활성화에 기여할 것이다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제24권6_2호
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• pp.707-713
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• 2021

Symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease include fever and drooling a lot around the hoof, blisters in the mouth, poor appetite, blisters around the hoof, and blisters around the hoof. Research is underway on smart barns that remotely manage these symptoms through cameras. Visible light cameras can measure the condition of livestock such as blisters, but cannot measure body temperature. On the other hand, infrared thermal imaging cameras can measure body temperature, but it is difficult to measure the condition of livestock. In this paper, we propose an object detection system using deep learning-based livestock detection using visible and infrared thermal imaging composite camera modules for preemptive response

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2023

농업 및 축산업 분야에서 혁신과 변화가 빠르게 진행되고 있으며, 스마트 축사와 같은 새로운 기술의 도입이 이루어지고 다양한 센서의 활용으로 장비 제어가 가능한 데이터들이 수집되고 있다. 그러나 축사 운영에는 다양한 어려운 과제들이 존재하며, 이러한 문제들을 해결하기 위하여 가상센서 기술이 필요하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 축사에 사용되는 다양한 데이터 항목과 센서 데이터 유형을 정의하고 타 분야에서 가상센서를 활용한 사례를 연구하며 최종 스마트 축사를 위한 가상센서 시스템을 구현하고 설계하였다. 최종적으로 구현된 시스템에 대한 평가 및 성능 지표 분석을 위한 MBE와 EVRMSE를 활용하였으며, 가상센서를 활용하여 데이터 수집 및 관리를 진행한 결과 실물센서와의 데이터 값 차이가 뚜렷하지 않아 만족스러운 결과를 보였다. 스마트 축사에서 가상센서 시스템을 활용하면 축사 운영 및 가축 건강 상태 모니터링 등 다양한 부분에서 혁신과 효율성 향상을 기대할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다. 이 논문은 스마트 축사 분야에서 가상 센서 기술을 활용하여 데이터 수집 및 관리의 혁신적인 방법을 제안하고, 그 성능을 검증하는데 있어서 중요한 결과를 도출한 연구이며, 향후 연구과제로 가상 센서를 활용한 디지털 축사의 연결 등을 탐색하고자 한다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제63권6호
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• pp.117-129
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• 2021

The movement of animals is one of the primary factors that influence the variation of livestock emissions. This study evaluated the relationship between animal activity and three major emissions, PM₁₀, PM_2.5, and ammonia gas, in weaning, growing, and fattening pig houses through continuous monitoring of the animal activity. The movement score of animals was quantified by the developed image analysis algorithm using 10-second video clips taken in the pig houses. The calculated movement scores were validated by comparison with six activity levels graded by an expert group. A comparison between PMs measurement and the movement scores demonstrated that an increase of the PMs concentrations was obviously followed by increased movement scores, for example, when feeding started. The PM₁₀ concentrations were more affected by the animal activity compared to the PM_2.5 concentrations, which were related to the inflow of external PM_2.5 due to ventilation. The PM₁₀ concentrations in the fattening house were 1.3 times higher than those in the weaning house because of the size of pigs while weaning pigs were more active and moved frequently compared to fattening pigs showing 2.45 times higher movement scores. The results also indicated that indoor ammonia concentration was not significantly influenced by animal activity. This study is significant in the sense that it could provide realistic emission factors of pig farms considering animal's daily activity levels if further monitoring is carried out continuously.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제62권6호
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• pp.33-42
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• 2020

Emission factors for ammonia and particulate matters (PMs) from livestock buildings are of increasing importance in view of the environmental protection. While the existing emission factors were determined based on the emission inventory of other countries, in situ measurement of emission factors is required to construct an accurate emission inventory for Korea. This study is to report measurements of ammonia and PMs emissions from mechanically-ventilated pig houses, which are common types of pig barns in Korea. Ventilation rates and concentrations of ammonia and PMs were measured at the ventilation outlets of a weaner unit, a growing pig unit and a fattening pig unit to calculated the emission factors. The PMs emission was characterized with different aerodynamic diameters (PM_2.5, PM₁₀, and total suspended particulates (TSP)). The measured ammonia emission factors for weaners, growing pigs and fattening pigs were 0.225, 0.869 and 1.679 kg animal^-1 yr^-1, respectively, showing linear increase with pigs' age. The PMs emission factors for three growing stages were 0.023, 0.237 and 0.241 kg animal^-1 yr^-1, respectively for TSP, 0.017, 0.072 and 0.223 kg animal^-1 yr^-1, respectively for PM₁₀, and 0.011, 0.016 and 0.151 kg animal^-1 yr^-1, respectively for PM_2.5. PMs emissions were increased with pigs' age due to increasing feed supply and animal movement. The measured emission factors were smaller than those of the existing emission inventory indicating that the existing ones overestimate the emissions from pig buildings and also suggesting that long-term in situ monitoring at various livestock buildings is required to construct the accurate emission inventory.