Consumption of animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs in first-world countries has
leveled off, but it is rising precipitously in developing countries. Agriculture will have to …

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

Welfare assessment has traditionally been performed by direct observation by humans,
providing information at only selected points in time. Recently, this assessment method has …

Animal behavior, as one of the most crucial indicators of animal health and welfare, provides
rich insights into animal physical and mental states. Automated animal activity recognition …

Livestock industries are increasingly embracing precision farming and decision support
tools. As a result, sensors, weather stations, individual animal tracking, feed monitoring and …

Video surveillance technology has been applied in many farms and a large amount of video
data has been generated. Extracting valuable information about the pig industry from video …

On-farm scoring of behavioural indicators of animal welfare is challenging but the increasing
availability of low cost technology now makes automated monitoring of animal behaviour …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility and validity of an automated
image processing method to detect the locomotion of pigs in a group housed environment …

The projected rise in the global human population and the anticipated increase in demand
for meat and animal products, albeit with a greatly reduced environmental footprint, offers a …

The objective of this review is to present, evaluate and discuss methods for reducing false
alarms in sensor-based detection models developed for livestock production as described in …