Individual Identification of Cow Using Image Processing Techniques

Cow identification has become important in recent years due to outbreaks of diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Conventional identification methods available are not efficient, affordable, non-invasive, and cost- effective. Among them, some methods are based on biological markers, such as muzzle point matching and facial recognition. Facial images are the most common biometric characteristics used by humans to identify individuals, and they have received much attention. In this study, we used RGB camera to identify individual cow by their faces and confirmed the effectiveness of this method.