Development of serum Vitamin A sensor for fattening cattle and precision livestock management based on regional strategy

• Project/Area Number: 17H01500
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agricultural environmental engineering/Agricultural information engineering
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Kondo Naoshi 京都大学, 農学研究科, 教授 (20183353)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 鈴木 哲仁 京都大学, 農学研究科, 助教 (00723115)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
• Budget Amount: ¥43,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥33,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥10,020,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥8,190,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,890,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥12,090,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,790,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥23,140,000 (Direct Cost: ¥17,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,340,000)
• Keywords: 牛肉 / コンピュータビジョン / 精密畜産 / 肉牛 / 和牛 / 画像処理 / 黒毛和牛 / 霜降り / ビタミンA

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Controlling serum Vitamin A level (VA) is an important practice in Japanese Black Cattle livestock farmars to increase BMS (Beef Marbling Standard). To estimate VA, image of cattle eyes was captured. A special camera was made for each stall that could get pupil image and fundus image by controlling LED lights. Each camera was set at the drinking place and images were captured through a grass window when cattle were drinking. VA was estimated by extracting image features and by multivariate analysis.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

肉牛では最も重要な情報であるVAのモニタリング技術が確立されてないこと，粗飼料の成分にバラツキがあること等の理由より，未だに農家の経験と勘を頼りに管理されており，情報化が乳牛に比べても遅れている。採血して血液検査を業者に依頼してでVAを測定することも行われているが，採血と悦液検査に手間と費用を要する。この研究は目の画像から非侵襲でVAを推定するものであり，精密畜産に貢献するものである。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Classification of multiple cattle behavior patterns using a recurrent neural network with long short-term memory and inertial measurement units. (2019)
  • Author(s): Yingqi Peng, Naoshi Kondo, Tateshi Fujiura, Tetsuhito Suzuki, Wulandari, Hidetsugu Yoshioka, Erina Itoyamaa
  • Journal Title: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture Volume: 4巻157 Pages: 247-253
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Classification of multiple cattle behavior patterns using a recurrent neural network with long short-term memory and inertial measurement units. (2019)
  • Author(s): Yingqi Peng, Naoshi Kondo, Tateshi Fujiura, Tetsuhito Suzuki, Wulandari, Hidetsugu Yoshioka, Erina Itoyamaa:
  • Journal Title: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture Volume: 157 Pages: 247-253
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Presentation] 90億人時代のための農食産業の最新動向 (2020)
  • Author(s): 近藤 直
  • Organizer: レーザー学会スマート農食産業へのレーザー応用シンポジウ ム
  • Invited
• [Presentation] “Electromagnetic Wave Based Sensing Systems in Smart Agriculture (2020)
  • Author(s): 近藤 直
  • Organizer: ANS2020(The 7th Asian NIR Symposium)
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] ロボットフォトニクス技術を 用いた第一次 産業のスマート化 (2019)
  • Author(s): 近藤 直
  • Organizer: JPC関西定例セミナー
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Smart Agriculture = Precision Agriculture + AI & IoT (2019)
  • Author(s): 近藤 直
  • Organizer: AESAP2019 (3^rd International Conference on Agricultural Engineering for Sustainable Agriculture Production
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Stationary Machine Vision Based Real Time Estimation of Japanese BlackCattle Serum Vitamin A using Eye Tapetum Color (2019)
  • Author(s): Samuel Ouma, Naoshi Kondo, Tateshi Fujiura, Yuichi Ogawa, Tetsuhito Suzuki Katsuya Takenouchi, Hidetsugu Yoshioka Hyogo, Moriyuki Fukushima, Takahiko Ohmae
  • Organizer: 農業食料工学会・農業施設学会・国際農業工学会第6部会 合同国際大会
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 畜産の情報化 (2018)
  • Author(s): 近藤 直
  • Organizer: 農業環境工学関連5学会2018年合同大会
• [Presentation] Estimation of Vitamin A levels in Japanese black cattle based on eyes surface reflection features using support vector machine regression in an automatic image acquisition system (2018)
  • Author(s): Wulandari, Naoshi Kondo, Tateshi Fujiura, Tetsuhito Suzuki, Tsuneo Kawamura, Masaya Mori, Yuan Zhou, Atsuyoshi Kiji, Tadahisa Masumoto, Moriyuki Fukushima, Namiko Kohama
  • Organizer: 農業環境工学関連5学会2018年合同大会
• [Presentation] Prediction of Serum Vitamin A Level from the Tapetum Color in Japanese Black Cattle using Automatic Image Acquisition System (2018)
  • Author(s): Samuel Ouma, Peng Yingqi, Naoshi Kondo, Tateshi Fujiura, Tsuneo Kawamura, Masaya Mori, Wulandari, Yuan Zhou, Takahiko Omae
  • Organizer: 農業環境工学関連5学会2018年合同大会
• [Presentation] Cattle Calving Time prediction using Recurrent Neural Network by Inertial Measurement Unit (2018)
  • Author(s): Yingqi Peng, Naoshi Kondo, Tateshi Fujiura, Tetsuhito Suzuki, Samuel Ouma, Hidetsugu Yoshioka, Erina Itoyama, Noriyasu Matsuhira, Hiroaki Murakami, Hiroshi Nagase, Shouko Kitamura
  • Organizer: 農業環境工学関連5学会2018年合同大会
• [Presentation] Estimation of Vitamin A levels in Japanese black cattle based on eyes surface reflection features using support vector machine regression in an automatic image acquisition system (2018)
  • Author(s): Wulandari, Naoshi Kondo, Tateshi Fujiura, Tetsuhito Suzuki, Tsuneo Kawamura, Masaya Mori, Yuan Zhou, Atsuyoshi Kiji, Tadahisa Masumoto, Moriyuki Fukushima, Namiko Kohama
  • Organizer: 農業環境工学関連5学会2018年合同大会
• [Presentation] Prediction of Serum Vitamin A Level from the Tapetum Color in Japanese Black Cattle using Automatic Image Acquisition System (2018)
  • Author(s): Samuel Ouma, Peng Yingqi, Naoshi Kondo, Tateshi Fujiura, Tsuneo Kawamura, Masaya Mori, Wulandari, Yuan Zhou, Takahiko Omae
  • Organizer: 農業環境工学関連5学会2018年合同大会
• [Presentation] Cattle Calving Time prediction using Recurrent Neural Network by Inertial Measurement Unit (2018)
  • Author(s): Yingqi Peng, Naoshi Kondo, Tateshi Fujiura, Tetsuhito Suzuki, Samuel Ouma, Hidetsugu Yoshioka, Erina Itoyama, Noriyasu Matsuhira, Hiroaki Murakami, Hiroshi Nagase, Shouko Kitamura
  • Organizer: 農業環境工学関連5学会2018年合同大会