ReCowGnition: A Realistic Biometric Benchmark for Cow Face Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22071v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:14:24 GMT
• Title: ReCowGnition: A Realistic Biometric Benchmark for Cow Face Recognition
• Abstract summary: We contribute a novel, publicly available cow face benchmark dataset with 6,838 images of 161 different cows at a dairy farm.<n>In addition to the public dataset, we define two verification and four identification evaluation protocols to foster comparable research in the cow recognition research field.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: With the development of precision livestock farming and the advances in computer vision, visual animal biometrics has gained attention. Using biometric technologies that have been proven effective for humans to identify livestock can increase animal welfare as well as production efficiency. However, challenges such as complex scenarios, similar appearances, occlusions, and non-cooperative behavior, as well as the limited amount of publicly available labeled datasets, remain. In this work, we contribute a novel, publicly available cow face benchmark dataset that has been collected in a realistic automatic scenario with 6,838 images of 161 different cows at a dairy farm. In addition to the public dataset, we define two verification and four identification evaluation protocols to foster comparable research in the cow recognition research field. Further, we provide evaluation results on our dataset of six benchmark models, which include models trained on limited data, cross-species fine-tuned models, and zero-shot foundation model approaches.

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