Towards Self-Supervision for Video Identification of Individual Holstein-Friesian Cattle: The Cows2021 Dataset

2 code implementations • 5 May 2021 • Jing Gao, Tilo Burghardt, William Andrew, Andrew W. Dowsey, Neill W. Campbell

Motivated by the labelling burden involved in constructing visual cattle identification systems, we propose exploiting the temporal coat pattern appearance across videos as a self-supervision signal for animal identity learning.

Contrastive Learning