Estimation of live muscle scores of pigs with RGB-D images and machine learning

Authors

  • A. Alsahaf University of Groningen, Department of Computing Science, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG Groningen, the Netherlands
  • G. Azzopardi University of Groningen, Department of Computing Science, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG Groningen, the Netherlands
  • N Petkov University of Groningen, Department of Computing Science, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG Groningen, the Netherlands

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18174/FAIRdata2018.16281

Abstract

Muscle grading of livestock is a crucial component of valuation in the meat industry. In pigs, the muscularity of a live animal is traditionally estimated by visual and tactile inspection from an experienced assessor. In addition to being a time-consuming process, scoring of this kind suffers from inconsistencies inherent to ...

Published

2018-12-11