Precision livestock farming (PLF) has spread to various countries worldwide since its
inception in 2003, though it has yet to be widely adopted. Additionally, the advent of Industry …

The advent of agricultural robotics research worldwide has brought substantial improvement
for various applications. This article provides a comprehensive review of published research …

Poultry farming is an essential industry of animal husbandry, which is developing in the
direction of scale, intelligence and unmanned. Intelligent information perception ideas for …

Large-scale phenotyping of animal behaviour traits is time consuming and has led to
increased demand for technologies that can automate these procedures. Automated …

There is increasing public concern about poultry welfare; the quality of animal welfare is
closely related to the quality of livestock products and the health of consumers. Good animal …

Highlights•Machine vision system developed to non-intrusively monitor broiler chicken.•2D
posture shape descriptors and walk speed were used as the feature variables.•Achieved …

Poultry behavior is a critical indicator of its health and welfare. Lameness is a clinical
symptom indicating the existence of health problems in poultry. Therefore, lameness …

Highlights•The aim of the paper was to automatically diagnose the health status of
broilers.•Feature fusion technology was added to improve the SSD model with InceptionV3 …

The automatic detection, counting and tracking of individual and flocked chickens in the
poultry industry is of paramount to enhance farming productivity and animal welfare. Due to …

The frequent occurrence of poultry diseases, such as bird flu, not only causes huge
economic losses to farmers but also seriously threatens the health of human beings …