Pairwise comparison locomotion scoring dataset for dairy cattle

Abstract

Lameness in dairy cattle is conventionally assessed through subjective, and often inconsistent visual scores of locomotion. Our work presents a pairwise comparison method to assess locomotion in cattle to reduce these sources of error. Five observers scored 50 videos of dairy cattle with conventional 4-level locomotion scoring and scored 90 pairs sampled from these 50 with pairwise scoring. Scaling methods were used to estimate a continuous measure of lameness for each video from the pairwise scores, which was compared to conventional scoring. This dataset contains the videos and scores used in this research.