Individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches

Animal identification is essential for routine farm operations, residue traceback, insurance, and ownership management. Owing to their uniqueness, incorrigible nature, tamperproof over time, environment-friendly, and pain-free, visual biometrics- based animal identification has recently gained momen...

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Main Authors: Singh, Rana Ranjeet, Khalid, Fatimah, Ahlawat, Timur Rampalsingh, Azman, Azreen, Agrawal, Anuradha, Ghorpade, Prerna, Romle, Amirul Azuani
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Published: Akademia Baru Publishing 2024
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author Singh, Rana Ranjeet
Khalid, Fatimah
Ahlawat, Timur Rampalsingh
Azman, Azreen
Agrawal, Anuradha
Ghorpade, Prerna
Romle, Amirul Azuani
author_facet Singh, Rana Ranjeet
Khalid, Fatimah
Ahlawat, Timur Rampalsingh
Azman, Azreen
Agrawal, Anuradha
Ghorpade, Prerna
Romle, Amirul Azuani
author_sort Singh, Rana Ranjeet
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description Animal identification is essential for routine farm operations, residue traceback, insurance, and ownership management. Owing to their uniqueness, incorrigible nature, tamperproof over time, environment-friendly, and pain-free, visual biometrics- based animal identification has recently gained momentum over traditional animal identification methods. Among visual biometrics-based cues, muzzle identification is a simple and relatively low-cost method. Therefore, to address the inherent significant limitations of conventional animal identification systems, we undertook this investigation to collect a database of digital images of muzzles that works as a benchmark, to apply deep learning frameworks to identify individual buffaloes from their muzzle images, and to compare their accuracy in terms of their identification capabilities. Muzzle images of 198 Surti buffaloes were subjected to transfer learning and fine-tuning processes in deep-learning neural networks. The performance was recorded for each pre-train model (ResNet50, InceptionV3, VGG16, AlexNet) with different hyperparameters of the epoch, batch size, and learning rate. A perusal of the data revealed that ResNet50 has the highest train accuracy (99.8%) and test accuracy (99.69%) among all four models used. AlexNet has the lowest train accuracy (90.8%) among the models. The findings concluded that all these four models could be applied to identify individual buffaloes; however, ResNet50 had the highest accuracy, and deep learning applications have great potential for individual buffalo identification and are promising tools for precision livestock farming
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spelling upm-1199932025-10-28T05:34:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/119993/ Individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches Singh, Rana Ranjeet Khalid, Fatimah Ahlawat, Timur Rampalsingh Azman, Azreen Agrawal, Anuradha Ghorpade, Prerna Romle, Amirul Azuani Animal identification is essential for routine farm operations, residue traceback, insurance, and ownership management. Owing to their uniqueness, incorrigible nature, tamperproof over time, environment-friendly, and pain-free, visual biometrics- based animal identification has recently gained momentum over traditional animal identification methods. Among visual biometrics-based cues, muzzle identification is a simple and relatively low-cost method. Therefore, to address the inherent significant limitations of conventional animal identification systems, we undertook this investigation to collect a database of digital images of muzzles that works as a benchmark, to apply deep learning frameworks to identify individual buffaloes from their muzzle images, and to compare their accuracy in terms of their identification capabilities. Muzzle images of 198 Surti buffaloes were subjected to transfer learning and fine-tuning processes in deep-learning neural networks. The performance was recorded for each pre-train model (ResNet50, InceptionV3, VGG16, AlexNet) with different hyperparameters of the epoch, batch size, and learning rate. A perusal of the data revealed that ResNet50 has the highest train accuracy (99.8%) and test accuracy (99.69%) among all four models used. AlexNet has the lowest train accuracy (90.8%) among the models. The findings concluded that all these four models could be applied to identify individual buffaloes; however, ResNet50 had the highest accuracy, and deep learning applications have great potential for individual buffalo identification and are promising tools for precision livestock farming Akademia Baru Publishing 2024 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_4 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/119993/1/119993.pdf Singh, Rana Ranjeet and Khalid, Fatimah and Ahlawat, Timur Rampalsingh and Azman, Azreen and Agrawal, Anuradha and Ghorpade, Prerna and Romle, Amirul Azuani (2024) Individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches. Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 59 (1). pp. 11-24. ISSN 2462-1943 https://semarakilmu.com.my/journals/index.php/applied_sciences_eng_tech/article/view/9884 10.37934/araset.59.2.178191
spellingShingle Singh, Rana Ranjeet
Khalid, Fatimah
Ahlawat, Timur Rampalsingh
Azman, Azreen
Agrawal, Anuradha
Ghorpade, Prerna
Romle, Amirul Azuani
Individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches
title Individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches
title_full Individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches
title_fullStr Individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches
title_full_unstemmed Individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches
title_short Individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches
title_sort individual buffalo identification through muzzle dermatoglyphics images using deep learning approaches
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