The invention discloses a
livestock identity recognition method and
system based on an unmanned aerial vehicle, and relates to the technical field of
livestock identity recognition, and the method comprises the steps: constructing an identity information
database which comprises the electronic
ear tag IDs of all target
livestock individuals in a
pasture, a visible light feature image, an
infrared thermal imaging contour template and a historical motion behavior sequence in a
cloud server; initialization of an unmanned aerial vehicle
system carrying a visible light camera, an
infrared thermal imager, an RFID reader and an edge calculation module is completed, and communication connection between the unmanned aerial vehicle
system and a
ground control station and between the unmanned aerial vehicle system and a
cloud server is established; controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle to enter an inspection area, monitoring a ground target through a visible light camera, synchronously acquiring a visible light image, an
infrared thermal image and a
radio frequency response
signal of a target individual when the livestock is detected to enter an effective identification range, and performing
timestamp alignment on the three types of data; a first visual
feature vector is extracted from the visible light image and a visual
confidence score is generated.