Individual Identification of Dairy Cows Based on Deep Feature Extrac-tion and Matching

Individual identification of dairy cows is the prerequisite for automatic analysis and intelligent perception of dairy cows'behavior.At present,individual identification of dairy cows based on deep convolutional neural network had the disadvantages in prolonged training at the additions of new cows samples.Therefore,a cow individual identification framework was proposed based on deep feature extraction and matching,and the individual identification of dairy cows based on this framework could avoid repeated training.Firstly,the trained convolutional neural network model was used as the feature extractor;secondly,the feature extraction was used to extract features and stored the features into the template feature library to complete the enrollment;finally,the identifies of dairy cows were identified.Based on this framework,when new cows joined the herd,enrollment could be completed quickly.In order to evaluate the application performance of this method in closed-set and open-set individual identification of dairy cows,back images of 524 cows were collected,among which the back images of 150 cows were selected as the training data to train feature extractor.The data of the remaining 374 cows were used to generate the template data set and the data to be identified.The experiment results showed that in the closed-set individual identification of dairy cows,the highest identification accuracy of top-1 was 99.73%,the highest identification accuracy from top-2 to top-5 was 100%,and the identification time of a single cow was 0.601 s,this method was verified to be effective.In the open-set individual identification of dairy cows,the recall was 90.38%,and the accuracy was 89.46%.When false accept rate(FAR)=0.05,true accept rate(TAR)=84.07%,this method was verified that the application had certain research value in open-set individual identification of dairy cows,which provided a certain idea for the application of individual identification in the field of intelligent animal husbandry.

Human Gait Recognition:A Deep Learning and Best Feature Selection Framework

Background—Human Gait Recognition(HGR)is an approach based on biometric and is being widely used for surveillance.HGR is adopted by researchers for the past several decades.Several factors are there that affect the system performance such as the walking variation due to clothes,a person carrying some luggage,variations in the view angle.Proposed—In this work,a new method is introduced to overcome different problems of HGR.A hybrid method is proposed or efficient HGR using deep learning and selection of best features.Four major steps are involved in this work-preprocessing of the video frames,manipulation of the pre-trained CNN model VGG-16 for the computation of the features,removing redundant features extracted from the CNN model,and classification.In the reduction of irrelevant features Principal Score and Kurtosis based approach is proposed named PSbK.After that,the features of PSbK are fused in one materix.Finally,this fused vector is fed to the One against All Multi Support Vector Machine(OAMSVM)classifier for the final results.Results—The system is evaluated by utilizing the CASIA B database and six angles 00◦,18◦,36◦,54◦,72◦,and 90◦are used and attained the accuracy of 95.80%,96.0%,95.90%,96.20%,95.60%,and 95.50%,respectively.Conclusion—The comparison with recent methods show the proposed method work better.

IoMT Enabled Melanoma Detection Using Improved Region Growing Lesion Boundary Extraction

The Internet ofMedical Things(IoMT)and cloud-based healthcare applications,services are beneficial for better decision-making in recent years.Melanoma is a deadly cancer with a highermortality rate than other skin cancer types such as basal cell,squamous cell,andMerkel cell.However,detection and treatment at an early stage can result in a higher chance of survival.The classical methods of detection are expensive and labor-intensive.Also,they rely on a trained practitioner’s level,and the availability of the needed equipment is essential for the early detection of Melanoma.The current improvement in computer-aided systems is providing very encouraging results in terms of precision and effectiveness.In this article,we propose an improved region growing technique for efficient extraction of the lesion boundary.This analysis and detection ofMelanoma are helpful for the expert dermatologist.The CNN features are extracted using the pre-trained VGG-19 deep learning model.In the end,the selected features are classified by SVM.The proposed technique is gauged on openly accessible two datasets ISIC 2017 and PH2.For the evaluation of our proposed framework,qualitative and quantitative experiments are performed.The suggested segmentation method has provided encouraging statistical results of Jaccard index 0.94,accuracy 95.7%on ISIC 2017,and Jaccard index 0.91,accuracy 93.3%on the PH2 dataset.These results are notably better than the results of prevalent methods available on the same datasets.The machine learning SVMclassifier executes significantly well on the suggested feature vector,and the comparative analysis is carried out with existing methods in terms of accuracy.The proposed method detects and classifies melanoma far better than other methods.Besides,our framework gained promising results in both segmentation and classification phases.