Posture detection targeted towards providing assessments for the monitoring of health and
welfare of pigs has been of great interest to researchers from different disciplines. Existing …

Simple Summary This study explored an image-based method for recognizing pigs' postures
during growth and established the world's first human-annotated pig-posture-recognition …

Prior livestock research provides evidence for the importance of accurate detection of pig
positions and postures for better understanding animal welfare. Position and posture …

Animal posture is a manifestation of animal behavior, and an animal's behavior provides
information about their health, welfare, and living environment. In recent years, machine …

Abstract Changes in pig behaviours are a useful aid in detecting early signs of compromised
health and welfare. In commercial settings, automatic detection of pig behaviours through …

Poultry behavior is an important indicator for diagnosing poultry diseases. Accurate pose
estimation is the basis of poultry behavior analysis, and it provides poultry disease warning …

The behaviors of livestock on farms are the primary representatives of animal welfare, health
conditions and social interactions. Measuring behavior quantitatively in an automatic …

For both pigs in commercial farms and biological experimental pigs at breeding bases,
mounting behaviour is likely to cause damage such as epidermal wounds, lameness and …

Recording sow behaviors allows tracking their health status, the timely detection of
abnormalities, and provides assistance to increase their health both physically and mentally …

Highlights•An automated detection method of pig feeding and foraging behaviour was
developed.•The automated method is based on convolutional deep neural networks.•The …