CVB (Video Dataset of Cattle Visual Behaviors)

Existing image/video datasets for cattle behavior recognition are mostly small, lack well-defined labels, or are collected in unrealistic controlled environments. This limits the utility of machine learning (ML) models learned from them. Therefore, we introduce a new dataset, called Cattle Visual Behaviors (CVB), that consists of 502 video clips, each fifteen seconds long, captured in natural lighting conditions, and annotated with eleven visually perceptible behaviors of grazing cattle. By creating and sharing CVB, our aim is to develop improved models capable of recognizing all important cattle behaviors accurately and to assist other researchers and practitioners in developing and evaluating new ML models for cattle behavior classification using video data. The dataset is presented in the form of following three sub-directories. 1. raw_frames: contains 450 frames in each sub folder representing a 15 second video taken at a frame rate of 30 FPS. 2. annotations: contains the json files corresponding to the raw_frames folder. There is one json file for each video, that contains the bounding-box annotations for each cattle in the video and its associated behavior, and 3. CVB_in_AVA_format: contains the CVB data in the AVA dataset format.