A comparison of low-cost techniques for three-dimensional animal body measurement in livestock buildings

1st Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry

农业科学;数学

Pezzuolo, A.^1 ; Giora, D.^1 ; Guo, H.^2 ; Ma, Q.^2 ; Guercini, S.^1 ; Marinello, F.^1

Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD)

35020, Italy^1

College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing

100083, China^2

关键词: Contact measurements;    Livestock buildings;    Manual measurements;    Metrological analysis;    Microsoft kinect;    Optical sensing;    Structure from motion;    Visual observations;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/275/1/012015/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/275/1/012015

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Data about health and development of animals are still now mostly collected through manual measurements or visual observations but these kinds of methods of collecting data are causes of several problems. Alternatively, optical sensing techniques can be implemented in order to overcome limitations arising from manual contact measurements. The present research discusses metrological analysis of Structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry approach, low-cost LiDAR scanning and Microsoft Kinect v1 depth camera to three-dimensional animal body measurement, with specific reference to pigs. Analyses were carried out on fiberglass model to get rid of animal movements. Scans were captured based on a segmented approach, where different portion of the body have been imaged during different frames acquisition tasks. The obtained results demonstrate the high potential of 3D Kinect. LiDAR show a higher RMS value respect to Kinect and SfM most probably due to the collection approach based on single profiles rather than on surfaces. Anyway, the RMS of relative noise ranges between 0.7 and 4 mm, showing a high accuracy of reconstructions even for the others techniques.