Technique for calculating the backfat thickness of a sow
AssigneeM3SEN Co., Ltd.
InventorsMan Hyeong Seo, Hee Kwang Lee
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Abstract
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for calculating a backfat thickness of a sow by a processor of a device is disclosed. The method may comprise: recognizing a dorsal angle measurement region using frame data; recognizing a plurality of three-dimensional coordinate values related to at least three points within the dorsal angle measurement region; and calculating a dorsal angle value of the sow for calculating the backfat thickness of the sow using the plurality of three-dimensional coordinate values.
Claims13
A method for calculating a backfat thickness of a sow by a processor of a device, the method comprising:
- recognizing a dorsal angle measurement region using frame data;
- recognizing a plurality of three-dimensional coordinate values related to at least three points within the dorsal angle measurement region;
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- calculating a dorsal angle value of the sow for calculating the backfat thickness of the sow using the plurality of three-dimensional coordinate values;
- wherein the recognizing the dorsal angle measurement region using the frame data comprises:
- inputting at least one of the frame data and body data acquired based on the frame data into a dorsal angle measurement region detection model, wherein the dorsal angle measurement region detection model is pre-trained to select a region having the highest accuracy for dorsal angle measurement among a plurality of candidate dorsal angle measurement regions;
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- recognizing the dorsal angle measurement region based on dorsal angle measurement region information output from the dorsal angle measurement region detection model.
A device for calculating a backfat thickness of a sow, the device comprising:
- a storage configured to store at least one program instruction;
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- a processor configured to execute the at least one program instruction,
- wherein the processor performs steps for calculating the backfat thickness of the sow, the steps comprising:
- recognizing a dorsal angle measurement region using frame data;
- recognizing a plurality of three-dimensional coordinate values related to at least three points within the dorsal angle measurement region;
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- calculating a dorsal angle value of the sow for calculating the backfat thickness of the sow using the plurality of three-dimensional coordinate values;
- wherein the step of recognizing the dorsal angle measurement region using the frame data comprises:
- inputting at least one of the frame data or body data acquired based on the frame data into a dorsal angle measurement region detection model, wherein the dorsal angle measurement region detection model is pre-trained to select a region having the highest accuracy for dorsal angle measurement among a plurality of candidate dorsal angle measurement regions;
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- recognizing the dorsal angle measurement region based on dorsal angle measurement region information output from the dorsal angle measurement region detection model.
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