Biometric-Based Security System for Smart Riding Clubs

Horses, workers or riders need safety in a farm or a riding club. On account of the great value of the horse, the breeder needs to protect it from theft and disease. In this context, it is important to detect and recognize the identity of each worker or rider and horse for security reasons. In fact, this paper proposes a Smart Riding Club Biometric System (SRCBS) consisting in automatically detecting and recognizing horses as well as humans. The proposed system is based on the facial biometrics for a horse as well as the human gait biometrics due to their simplicity and intuitiveness in an uncontrolled environment. This work suggests a Siamese network based on DenseNet features for human gait recognition, a Sparse Neural Network (SNN) based on sparse features for horse face detection and a horse face recognition method based on Gabor features, LDA and SVM. Because of the unavailability of horse databases, this paper presents a new benchmark for horse detection and recognition in order to evaluate our proposed system. The proposed systems achieved an average accuracy of gait recognition equal to 95% in the 0° view, 100% in the 90° view and 98.90% in the 180° view on Casia-B dataset, an average precision equal to 90% for horse face detection and a recognition rate equal to 99.89% for horse face identification.