Utilizing EfficientNet for sheep breed identification in low-resolution images

Automatically recognizing sheep breeds is highly valuable for the sheep farming industry, allowing farmers to pinpoint their specific business needs. Accurately distinguishing between sheep breeds poses a challenge for numerous farmers with limited expertise. Although biometric-based identification...

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Main Authors: Galib Muhammad Shahriar Himel, Md. Masudul Islam, Mijanur Rahaman
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Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
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description Automatically recognizing sheep breeds is highly valuable for the sheep farming industry, allowing farmers to pinpoint their specific business needs. Accurately distinguishing between sheep breeds poses a challenge for numerous farmers with limited expertise. Although biometric-based identification offers a feasible solution, its application becomes impractical when assessing large numbers of sheep in real-time. Therefore, the implementation of an automatic sheep classification model that can replicate the breed identification skills of a sheep breed expert can come in handy. This would be particularly beneficial for novice farmers who could utilize handheld devices for breed classification. To address this objective, we propose employing a convolutional neural network (CNN) model capable of rapidly and accurately identifying sheep breeds from low-resolution images. Our experiment utilized a dataset of 1680 facial images representing four distinct sheep breeds. We conducted experiments on the dataset using various EfficientNet models and found that EfficientNetB5 achieved the highest performance with 97.62 % accuracy on a 10 % test split. The classification model we developed has the potential to assist sheep farmers in efficiently distinguishing between different breeds, facilitating more precise assessments and sector-specific classification for various businesses within the industry.
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spelling doaj-art-665cc9a153b8427bbb32fa16ba2a32f72024-12-19T11:03:00ZengElsevierSystems and Soft Computing2772-94192024-12-016200093Utilizing EfficientNet for sheep breed identification in low-resolution imagesGalib Muhammad Shahriar Himel0Md. Masudul Islam1Mijanur Rahaman2Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, Dhaka, BangladeshCorresponding author at: House-36, Road-18, Rupnagar Abashik, Pallabi, Dhaka, 1216, Bangladesh.; Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, Dhaka, BangladeshBangladesh University of Business and Technology, Dhaka, BangladeshAutomatically recognizing sheep breeds is highly valuable for the sheep farming industry, allowing farmers to pinpoint their specific business needs. Accurately distinguishing between sheep breeds poses a challenge for numerous farmers with limited expertise. Although biometric-based identification offers a feasible solution, its application becomes impractical when assessing large numbers of sheep in real-time. Therefore, the implementation of an automatic sheep classification model that can replicate the breed identification skills of a sheep breed expert can come in handy. This would be particularly beneficial for novice farmers who could utilize handheld devices for breed classification. To address this objective, we propose employing a convolutional neural network (CNN) model capable of rapidly and accurately identifying sheep breeds from low-resolution images. Our experiment utilized a dataset of 1680 facial images representing four distinct sheep breeds. We conducted experiments on the dataset using various EfficientNet models and found that EfficientNetB5 achieved the highest performance with 97.62 % accuracy on a 10 % test split. The classification model we developed has the potential to assist sheep farmers in efficiently distinguishing between different breeds, facilitating more precise assessments and sector-specific classification for various businesses within the industry.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277294192400022XAgricultural automationComputer visionSheep breed classificationImage processingEfficientNetImage classification
spellingShingle Galib Muhammad Shahriar Himel
Md. Masudul Islam
Mijanur Rahaman
Utilizing EfficientNet for sheep breed identification in low-resolution images
Systems and Soft Computing
Agricultural automation
Computer vision
Sheep breed classification
Image processing
EfficientNet
Image classification
title Utilizing EfficientNet for sheep breed identification in low-resolution images
title_full Utilizing EfficientNet for sheep breed identification in low-resolution images
title_fullStr Utilizing EfficientNet for sheep breed identification in low-resolution images
title_full_unstemmed Utilizing EfficientNet for sheep breed identification in low-resolution images
title_short Utilizing EfficientNet for sheep breed identification in low-resolution images
title_sort utilizing efficientnet for sheep breed identification in low resolution images
topic Agricultural automation
Computer vision
Sheep breed classification
Image processing
EfficientNet
Image classification
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277294192400022X
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