ASAS-NANP SYMPOSIUM: MATHEMATICAL MODELING IN ANIMAL NUTRITION: Data-efficient Computer Vision for Precision Livestock Farming
Abstract
Precision livestock farming (PLF) increasingly relies on computer vision (CV) to monitor animal behavior, health, and production. However, widespread adoption remains limited by the large quantities of manually labeled data required to train most artificial intelligence (AI) models. This paper reviews AI and CV applications in PLF and presents three data-efficient case studies conducted at a research feedlot at Texas A&M University. The assessment of AI model predictability was conducted with precision, recall, F1-score, and adjusted rand index (ARI). In Case Study 1, a data-efficient Mask R-CNN model pre-trained on the COCO dataset was applied without modification to detect cattle feeding events at individual feed bunks. Across 98,720 frame-bunk classifications, the system achieved 87.2% precision, 89.1% recall, and an 88.2% F1 score compared to physical bunk sensor ground truth. In Case Study 2, transfer learning on a ResNet backbone was used to classify bunk feed grade across six customized levels (S00-S40) using only 183 labelled images. The model achieved 91% accuracy on an independent verification set of 7,905 images. In Case Study 3, statistical tools, i.e., Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) and k-means clustering, were applied to identify individual animals at the bunk without manual animal-level annotation. This method and achieved an ARI of 0.96 against expert-verified ground truth, successfully differentiating animals.…
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