Japanese Black Beef Cow Behavior Classification Dataset

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Japanese Black Beef Cow Behavior Classification Dataset

This dataset contains tri-axial accelerometer sensor data with thirteen different labeled cow behaviors. This data was gathered with a 16bit +/- 2g Kionix KX122-1037 accelerometer attached to the neck of six different Japanese Black Beef Cows (`cow1.csv`-`cow6.csv`) at a cow farm of Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan on the 12th of June, 2020.

The data gathering took place over the course of one day in which the cows were allowed to roam freely in two different areas, namely, a grass field and farm pens, while being filmed with Sony FDR-X3000 4K video cameras.

The timestamps of the video and accelerometer data were matched while human observers which included behavior experts and non-experts labeled the data from the video footage. The labeling and data gathering took a total of 69 person-hours.

567 minutes of unlabeled data were parsed into 197 minutes of high-quality labeled data comprising thirteen behaviors by means of majority voting with three annotators. The time per behavior in number of samples (@25Hz) and their respective descriptions are shown in the following table:

Cow 1
Cow 2
Cow 3
Cow 4
Cow 5
Cow 6
Description

RES
35814
47059
20501
15735
11025
19996
Resting in standing position

RUS
1620
25930
11156
14523
0
0
Ruminating in standing position

MOV
6376
8437
7532
17248
4846
5760
Moving

GRZ
2416
2199
0
2707
2442
7849
Grazing

SLT
204
0
10654
0
0
0
Salt licking

FES
6809
0
0
0
1125
0
Feeding in stanchion

DRN
1176
0
1300
0
0
0
Drinking

LCK
0
0
649
297
0
356
Licking

REL
0 
360
0
404
0
0
Resting in lying position

URI
239
0
383
0
0
0
Urinating

ATT
57
50
0
62
0
197
Attacking

ESC
0
0
0
128
0
0
Escaping

BMN
0
54
0
0
0
0
Being mounted

ETC
105917
103084
129297
62064
53922
100571
Other behaviors

BLN
151249
82599
88431
111744
61544
45128
Data without video, no label

Sum
311876
269772
269903
224912
134904
179857

Accelerometer sampling rate was set to 25Hz.

The data is split into six .csv files which represents each of the 6 cows above. The columns of these files are defined as follows:

TimeStamp_UNIX [-]
TimeStamp_JST [-]
AccX [g]
AccY [g]
AccZ [g]
Label [-]

GPS timestamp in UNIX
GPS timestamp in JST
X-axis acceleration
Y-axis acceleration
z-axis acceleration
labeled behavior

The gathering of this data with these cows was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Shinshu University.

Version History

v1.0.0: Release on 24th of September, 2021. First version.

v2.0.0: This version. UNIX and Japan Standard Time (JST) time stamps are added for each .csv file of cow1-6. Added explanations of behaviors for ETC and BLN. More information on publications that use this dataset, data logger software that has been developed for this project.

Data logger open source software

Software developed for the data logger that was used to gather this dataset, Sony's IoT development board SPRESENSE, CXD5602PWBMAIN1. The function of this data logger is to write inertia sensor data along with timestamps. Timestamp data is corrected with GPS signal. Available in Arduino development environment.

https://zenodo.org/record/5848608#.YeFF9NHP3Z8

Publications using this dataset

[1] Li, Chao, et al. "Data Augmentation for Inertial Sensor Data in CNNs for Cattle Behavior Classification." IEEE Sensors Letters 5.11 (2021): 1-4.

[2] Bartels, Jim, et al. "A 216 microW, 87% Accurate Cow Behavior Classifying Decision Tree on FPGA With Interpolated Arctan2." 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). IEEE, 2021.