DocumentCode
2968559
Title
Automatic infrared based temperature measuring system for health monitoring in veterinary applications
Author
Wirthgen, Tom ; Zipser, Stephan ; Franze, Ulrike ; Geidel, Steffi ; Lempe, Georg
Author_Institution
Fraunhofer Inst. for Transp. & Infrastruct. Syst., Dresden, Germany
fYear
2011
fDate
28-31 Oct. 2011
Firstpage
1800
Lastpage
1803
Abstract
Within the interdisciplinary R&D project VIONA a novel measuring system was developed to investigate the potential of an automatic infrared (IR) based health monitoring of dairy cows. The project faces three challenging tasks necessary for automation: the precise IR temperature measurement under rough practical conditions, the automatic image processing providing an anatomically related segmentation and the diagnostic algorithm finally selecting diseased animals. This paper gives a summarizing overview of the developed research platform VIONA, which fulfils the practical requirements and helps to perform the largest known IR based field study for dairy cows.
Keywords
image processing; temperature measurement; veterinary medicine; automatic image processing; automatic infrared based temperature measuring system; dairy cows; health monitoring; veterinary applications; Cows; Image segmentation; Measurement uncertainty; Monitoring; Temperature measurement;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Sensors, 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location
Limerick
ISSN
1930-0395
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-9290-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127107
Filename
6127107
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