CCoMAML: Efficient Cattle Identification Using Cooperative Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11219v1
• Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 11:35:14 GMT
• Title: CCoMAML: Efficient Cattle Identification Using Cooperative Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning
• Authors: Rabin Dulal, Lihong Zheng, Ashad Kabir,
• Abstract summary: Cattle identification is critical for efficient livestock farming management.<n>Biometric identification using cattle muzzle patterns similar to human fingerprints has emerged as a promising solution.<n>This paper proposes a novel few-shot learning framework for real-time cattle identification.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Cattle identification is critical for efficient livestock farming management, currently reliant on radio-frequency identification (RFID) ear tags. However, RFID-based systems are prone to failure due to loss, damage, tampering, and vulnerability to external attacks. As a robust alternative, biometric identification using cattle muzzle patterns similar to human fingerprints has emerged as a promising solution. Deep learning techniques have demonstrated success in leveraging these unique patterns for accurate identification. But deep learning models face significant challenges, including limited data availability, disruptions during data collection, and dynamic herd compositions that require frequent model retraining. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a novel few-shot learning framework for real-time cattle identification using Cooperative Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (CCoMAML) with Multi-Head Attention Feature Fusion (MHAFF) as a feature extractor model. This model offers great model adaptability to new data through efficient learning from few data samples without retraining. The proposed approach has been rigorously evaluated against current state-of-the-art few-shot learning techniques applied in cattle identification. Comprehensive experimental results demonstrate that our proposed CCoMAML with MHAFF has superior cattle identification performance with 98.46% and 97.91% F1 scores.

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