The increasing demand for sustainable livestock products also demands new
considerations in animal breeding. Breeding programs are now seeking to integrate animal …

Simple Summary The increasing implementation of technological advances originally
developed for video gaming (PlayStation, Xbox) is helping to progress livestock production …

Several precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies, conceived for optimizing farming
processes, are developed to detect the physical and behavioral changes of animals …

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

Early detection of health and welfare compromises in commercial piggeries is essential for
timely intervention to enhance treatment success, reduce impact on welfare, and promote …

Pork accounts for an important proportion of livestock products. For pig farming, a lot of
manpower, material resources and time are required to monitor pig health and welfare. As …

The feeding behavior of each individual pig is an important indicator to determine whether it
is healthy or not. Therefore, automatic behavior recognition for individual pig is one of the …

Livestock production to provide food for a growing world population, with increasing demand
for meat and milk products, has led to a rapid growth in the scale of cattle and pig …

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 …

Abstract Information on the daily growth rate of pigs enables the stockman to monitor their
performance and health and to predict and control their market weight and date. Manual …