PCCNet: A point supervised dense Chickens flock counting network

PCCNet: A point supervised dense Chickens flock counting network

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In broiler breeding, precise counting is crucial for improving production efficiency and ensuring animal welfare.Nevertheless, counting chickens precisely is a challenging task especially when young chicks always huddle for warmth.Although deep learning has been widely taken in different here counting related tasks, more accurate localization and counting of chickens in high stocking density scenes still has not been well investigated.

We propose a point supervised dense chickens flock counting network (PCCNet), which directly utilizes points as learning targets.The network adopts information feature fusion to assist the identification of broilers high stocking density scenes.In addition, considering the distance of neighboring points as matching cost in point matching algorithms is advantageous for generating more reasonable matching results, facilitating model convergence.

To validate the effectiveness of the proposed network, a Chicken Counting Dataset (CCD) is built, consisting of two subsets separated by different ages: CCD_A and CCD_B.The accuracies of PCCNet on the two subsets of CCD are 97.85% and 97.

06%, with corresponding Mean Absolute Errors (MAE) of 1.966 and 5.173, and Root Mean Square Errors (RMSE) values of 3.

474 and 7.034, respectively.Our model achieves better broiler invertatop squeeze bottle counting performance than other state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.