CowPhIT

What is it about?

CowPhIT is a low-cost phenotyping platform to evaluate the structural traits of cattle. In english - we're trying to put all the wisdom of your old livestock judging coach into your back pocket. With our App, you can quickly and easily scan key structural features of your cattle, and using a combination of photogrammetry and LiDAR scanning technology, produce a high resolution 3D twin of your animal. You can scan anywhere you need to, and the next time you hit 3G/Wifi connection, you scans will be pushed up to our Cloud. There they will be passed through our patented computer vision pipeline, where key anatomical landmarks are automatically annotated, allowing us to break your cow down into all the key angles and proportions that your livestock judging coach taught you to look for (and a couple we've come up with on our own). We'll then send you a pdf report with visualizations of your data to help you evaluate how these key structural traits to are distributed across your herd - to help with breeding, culling, and management decisions. For traits where breed standards are evaluated, we'll also provide you scores on the appropriate type trait scale that you can report back to your breed association if you chose to do so.