METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LIVESTOCK ASSESSMENT USING MACHINE VISION TECHNOLOGY

摘要

A method and apparatus for capturing a three-dimensional representation o f livestock involves simultaneously imaging the reflections of a light sourc e from various portions of the animal on a two-dimensional pixel array and d eriving range data for each pixel. The range data from the plurality of pixe ls is used to generate a three-dimensional representation of the animal for phenotype or other conformation assessments.