Horsing Around—A Dataset Comprising Horse Movement

Abstract

Movement data were collected at a riding stable over seven days. The dataset comprises data from 18 individual horses and ponies with 1.2 million 2-s data samples, of which 93,303 samples have been tagged with labels (labeled data). Data from 11 subjects were labeled. The data from six subjects and six activities were labeled more extensively. Data were collected during horse riding sessions and when the horses freely roamed the pasture over seven days. Sensor devices were attached to a collar that was positioned around the neck of horses. The orientation of the sensor devices was not strictly fixed. The sensors devices contained a three-axis accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer and were sampled at 100 Hz.

Dataset

“…The complete dataset is available online with open access at the 4TU.Centre for Research Data [9]. The data is organized in segments of continuous raw sensor data.…”

Hiding in the deep : online animal activity recognition using motion sensors and machine learning

“…A large amount of additional unlabeled data makes this dataset particularly interesting for unsupervised AAR research. The datasets and their descriptions have appeared in [70,71,77,83]…”

“…For example, the dataset might be valuable to improve AAR methods for other quadruped animals within the Equidae family, such as zebras or donkeys. The dataset was publicly released and described to allow other researchers to improve AAR methods and benchmark novel approaches to unsupervised representation learning for AAR [75,77,83]. The complete dataset is available online with open access at the 4TU.Centre for Research Data [75].…”

“…• Similarities: -The size of datasets in the three evaluations were different. Chapter 4 used the smallest dataset per subject (Movement Data of Goats and Sheep [70]), Chapter 5 used the largest dataset (Multi Sensor-Orientation Movement Data of Goats [71]), and Chapter 6 used a middle-sized dataset that was the most balanced (Horse Movement Data [75]). Please refer to the Chapters for the respective sizes and compositions of the datasets.…”

“…Because the horses were being ridden, this dataset is more balanced over the different types of gait than the goat dataset. This dataset has been made publicly available [75,77,83]. More information regarding this dataset can be found in Chapter 3.…”