Precision breeding techniques have been widely used to optimize expenses and increase
livestock yields. Notwithstanding, the joint use of heterogeneous sensors and artificial …

Simple Summary As sociability in cattle is a matter of good animal husbandry, this study
provides technical groundwork for a camera based system to automatically analyse dairy …

Adoption of automated monitoring devices (AMD) affords the opportunity to tailor
reproductive management according to the cow's needs. We hypothesized that a targeted …

Estrus and calving are two major events of reproduction that benefit from connected devices
because of their crucial importance in herd economics and the amount of time required for …

Monitoring heat events in dairy cows is crucial for determining the heat on time, and the heat
events have usually been estimated using machine learning on cow behavioral data …

As the presence of a human observer can influence the behaviour of animals, a camera
based system in which the cows cannot leave the surveyed area, and that automatically …

Objectives of the current experiment were to evaluate the effects on reproductive
performance of adding an automated estrous detection (AED) device to the reproductive …

[Significance] The beef cattle industry plays a pivotal role in the development of China's
agricultural economy and the enhancement of people's dietary structure. However, there …

Simple Summary The recognition of objects in three dimensional (3D) data is challenging,
especially when it comes to the partition of objects into predefined segments. In this study …

Simple Summary Although the milk production of dairy cows has increased rapidly in recent
decades, the reproductive performance of dairy cows has gradually declined. In modern …