eelianafang/MOUNT-Cattle

---
pretty_name: MOUNT-Cattle Dataset
tags:
- cattle
- object-detection
- keypoint-detection
- mount
- cow
- estrus
- farm
- animal
task_categories:
- object-detection
- image-classification
license: mit
---

# Updates/News 📣

* 🎉 **News (Feb. 2026)**: The dataset paper [FSMC-Pose](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16596) has been accepted for CVPR 2026 Findings!
* 🔗 **News**: Please find the open-source dataset on Hugging Face: [MOUNT-Cattle](https://huggingface.co/datasets/eelianafang/MOUNT-Cattle).

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# 📌 Overview

Mounting posture is an important visual indicator of estrus in dairy cattle. MOUNT-Cattle is a mounting dataset, covering 1,176 mounting instances, which follows the COCO format and supports drop-in training across pose estimation models.


In the actual training process, please use the comprehensive dataset that combines MOUNT-Cattle with the public NWAFU-Cattle dataset. This repository provides the corresponding comprehensive dataset used in that training setup. supporting:
- Object Detection (bounding boxes)
- Keypoint Detection (pose estimation)
The dataset was originally labeled in **COCO format**, and to be compatible with Hugging Face, we provide the converted **JSONL format**.

# 📁 Dataset Structure

## 🔹 Original COCO Format

```
MOUNT-Cattle/
├── images/
├── annotations/
│ ├── train.json
│ ├── val.json
│ └── test.json
```

## 🔹 Hugging Face Friendly JSONL Format

```
MOUNT-Cattle/
├── images/
├── train.jsonl
├── validation.jsonl
└── test.jsonl
```

# 🦴 Keypoints Annotation

The dataset defines the following keypoints in order:

```
1. Head-top
2. Neck
3. Spine
4. Right_front_leg_root
5. Right_front_knee
6. Right_front_hoof
7. Left_front_leg_root
8. Left_front_knee
9. Left_front_hoof
10. Coccyx
11. Right_hind_leg_root
12. Right_hind_knee
13. Right_hind_hoof
14. Left_hind_leg_root
15. Left_hind_knee
16. Left_hind_hoof
```

# 📜 License

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# 🙋 Acknowledgement

Information Technology Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture