An Automatic Estimation of Dairy Cow Body Condition Score Using Analytic Geometric Image Features

In today modern precision dairy farms, among many dominant factors the Body Condition Score (BCS) has been considered a critical value to optimize milk production, analyzing health problems, insemination timing, and many others. Currently, the BCS is measured by human experts giving time- consuming and varying outcomes from one expert to another so that an automatic estimation system for body condition scoring is needed to be developed. Although there have been some researchers on the topics of the BCS by using image processing techniques, an efficient and satisfactory method has not been found yet. Therefore, in this paper, a new approach to an automatic estimation of dairy cow BCS using analytic geometry image features will be considered. Some experimental results are shown by using the BCS database.