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Samierra Arora1, Emily Kieson2, Christine Rudd2

  • 1System Design & Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

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This study introduces a new AI framework for recognizing horse-human interaction behaviors from video, improving animal welfare and safety. The system accurately identifies subtle behaviors, even rare ones, using multi-modal computer vision.

Keywords:
class imbalanceequine behaviorhierarchical classificationhuman–animal interactionmulti-modal feature fusion

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Area of Science:

  • Computational ethology and computer vision for animal behavior analysis.
  • Human-animal interaction (HAI) research focusing on equine-human dynamics.

Background:

  • Automated recognition of equine-human interaction is challenging due to data imbalance and the need for cross-species analysis.
  • Existing methods often ignore full-body posture or fail with imbalanced datasets, lacking integrated human and equine body language analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel hierarchical classification framework for distinguishing behavioral states in horse-human encounters.
  • To integrate multi-modal computer vision features for simultaneous analysis of human and equine body language.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a hierarchical classification framework with three feature extraction pipelines: YOLOv8 (spatial relationships), MediaPipe (human pose), and AP-10K (equine pose).
  • Extracted 35 discriminative features from 28 videos (50,270 samples) across five horse breeds.
  • Employed cost-sensitive gradient boosting with automatic class weight optimization to address severe class imbalance (18.3:1 ratio).

Main Results:

  • The first stage achieved 73.2% balanced accuracy classifying interactions into affiliative, neutral, and avoidant categories.
  • The second stage achieved 88.5% balanced accuracy for six fine-grained sub-behaviors (with oracle routing).
  • Achieved 85.0% recall for safety-critical avoidant behaviors (3.8% of data), demonstrating effectiveness on imbalanced classes.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework is the first systematic multimodal cross-species behavioral assessment pipeline for human-animal interaction.
  • Equine pose features were critical for classification performance, highlighting the importance of species-specific indicators.
  • The system has direct implications for enhancing equine welfare monitoring and rider safety protocols.