Simple Summary Accurate estrus detection by farmers is key to successful sow breeding as
it offers the opportunity for timely mating, successful reproduction, and increased …

Highlights•This paper proposes a high accurate image segmentation method for lactating
sows.•A fully convolutional network (FCN) is applied to produce the coarse output.•The …

Abstract Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) plays a key role in the advancement of animal
housing, since it is associated with the improvement of animals' health and welfare status …

Highlights•A novel pig detection approach using template matching is presented.•Multiple
visual features are combined in templates to describe appearances of pigs.•Representative …

The detection of individual pigs and their parts is a key step to realizing automatic
recognition of group-housed pigs' behavior by video monitoring. However, it is still difficult to …

Measuring animal behaviour is important in the assessment of animal welfare. When
interaction with the enrichment material (EM) can be measured, it can be used for detecting …

The aim of this study is to build a kinetic energy model to recognise aggressive behaviours
in pigs. Pig mixing experiments were performed 10 times. In each experiment, 7 pigs from 3 …

Highlights An egg-collecting robot embedded with deep-learning-based computer vision
algorithms was constructed. The retrained deep-learning detector achieved> 93 …

The automatic detection of pigs in camera images from within the barn helps scientists and
farmers to detect abnormal behaviour or problematic housing conditions and to investigate …

Abstract Information on sow nursing behavior plays an important role in improving the
survival rate of weaned piglets. To obtain more information on sow nursing processing, it is …