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 …

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 …

Over the past four decades the dietary needs of the global population have been elevated,
with increased consumption of animal products predominately due to the advancing …

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

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 …

An animal's behaviour can be a useful indicator of their physiological and physical state. As
resting, eating, walking and ruminating are the predominant daily activities of ruminant …

Background The use of accelerometers in bio-logging devices has proved to be a powerful
tool for the quantification of animal behaviour. While bio-logging techniques are being used …

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 …

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 …