Muzzle-Based Cattle Identification Using Speed up Robust Feature Approach

Abstract

Starting from the last century, animals identification became important for several purposes, e.g. tracking, controlling livestock transaction, and illness control. Invasive and traditional ways used to achieve such animal identification in farms or laboratories. To avoid such invasiveness and to get more accurate identification results, biometric identification methods have appeared. This paper presents an invariant biometric-based identification system to identify cattle based on their muzzle print images. This system makes use of Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF) features extraction technique along with with minimum distance and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers. The proposed system targets to get best accuracy using minimum number of SURF interest points, which minimizes the time needed for the system to complete an accurate identification. It also compares between the accuracy gained from SURF features through different classifiers. The experiments run 217 muzzle print images and the experimental results showed that our proposed approach achieved an excellent identification rate compared with other previous works.