# Beef Cattle Instance Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Neural Network

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01972 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.01972/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 5 Jul 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Livestock Monitoring with Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.00801/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present an instance segmentation algorithm trained and applied to a CCTV recording of beef cattle during a winter finishing period. A fully convolutional network was transformed into an instance segmentation network that learns to label each instance of an animal separately. We introduce a conceptually simple framework that the network uses to output a single prediction for every animal. These results are a contribution towards behaviour analysis in winter finishing beef cattle for early detection of animal welfare-related problems.