The Pattern Recognition in Cattle Brand using Bag of Visual Words and Support Vector Machines Multi-Class

The recognition images of cattle brand in an automatic way is a necessity to governmental organs responsible for this activity. To help this process, this work presents a method that consists in using Bag of Visual Words for extracting of characteristics from images of cattle brand and Support Vector Machines Multi-Class for classification. This method consists of six stages: a) select database of images; b) extract points of interest (SURF); c) create vocabulary (K-means); d) create vector of image characteristics (visual words); e) train and sort images (SVM); f) evaluate the classification results. The accuracy of the method was tested on database of municipal city hall, where it achieved satisfactory results, reporting 86.02% of accuracy and 56.705 seconds of processing time, respectively