In sheep body measurement based on machine vision

the color image can not extract sheep contour precisely because of light and background interference. Sheep ’s uncertain standing posture can also cause measurement error. In order to solve the problem of background interference

measurement system is built based on VS2010

Windows SDK

and Kinect sensor as the image acquisition device is used to acquire the sheep body color image and depth image. Sheep body contour is gained by the way of color and depth fusion. Sheep body space contour fitting plane is established based on depth information

and angle between image plane and fitting plane is calculated to solve the problem of standing posture effect. The test results show the relative error is within 4. 3 %.