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  • 1College of Information Science and Engineering, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, China.

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This study introduces a novel grouped attention module to improve pig segmentation in farming environments, enhancing accuracy for applications like identification and behavior analysis.

Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Animal Science
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Pig segmentation in farming is challenging due to adhesion, occlusion, and posture changes.
  • Existing methods struggle with complex real-world pig farming conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an effective pig segmentation method for complex farming environments.
  • To enhance the performance of Mask R-CNN and Cascade Mask R-CNN models for pig segmentation.

Main Methods:

  • Collected video data of 45 pigs (20-105 days old) across 8 pens, generating 1917 labeled images.
  • Employed a grouped attention module within a feature pyramid network to fuse deep and shallow feature maps.
  • Integrated grouped attention and data augmentation into Mask R-CNN and Cascade Mask R-CNN architectures.
Keywords:
attention mechanismchannel attentionfeature pyramid networkimage segmentationspatial attention

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Main Results:

  • Data augmentation improved Mask R-CNN segmentation metrics (AP50, AP75, AP L, AP) by up to 1.5%.
  • The grouped attention module outperformed the CBAM module, achieving superior results in key segmentation metrics.
  • The proposed model demonstrated robustness and transferability on external datasets, showing good segmentation in varied conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Grouped attention significantly enhances high-precision segmentation of individual pigs across diverse scenarios, ages, and times.
  • The developed method offers valuable insights for pig identification and behavior analysis in mobile farming settings.
  • The study highlights the effectiveness of grouped attention for robust animal segmentation in challenging environments.