Precision livestock farming in swine welfare: a review for swine practitioners

M Benjamin, S Yik - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The increasing implementation of technological advances originally
developed for video gaming (PlayStation, Xbox) is helping to progress livestock production …

Image analysis and computer vision applications in animal sciences: an overview

AFA Fernandes, JRR Dórea, GJM Rosa - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, and Digital Image Analysis can be viewed as an
amalgam of terms that very often are used to describe similar processes. Most of this …

[HTML][HTML] Automatically detecting pig position and posture by 2D camera imaging and deep learning

M Riekert, A Klein, F Adrion, C Hoffmann… - … and Electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Prior livestock research provides evidence for the importance of accurate detection of pig
positions and postures for better understanding animal welfare. Position and posture …

The livestock farming digital transformation: implementation of new and emerging technologies using artificial intelligence

S Fuentes, CG Viejo, E Tongson… - Animal Health Research …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Livestock welfare assessment helps monitor animal health status to maintain productivity,
identify injuries and stress, and avoid deterioration. It has also become an important …

An overview of the current trends in precision pig farming technologies

C Tzanidakis, P Simitzis, K Arvanitis, P Panagakis - Livestock Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Pig farming is one of the most technologically advanced and continuously growing
production sectors. As the pig herds grow larger and at the same time the number of farmers …

An improved PointNet++ point cloud segmentation model applied to automatic measurement method of pig body size

H Hao, Y Jincheng, Y Ling, C Gengyuan… - … and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Currently, non-contact and automatic measurement of livestock body size is the research
orientation of computer-aided livestock breeding and intelligent farming industry. However …

Multi-pig part detection and association with a fully-convolutional network

ET Psota, M Mittek, LC Pérez, T Schmidt, B Mote - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Computer vision systems have the potential to provide automated, non-invasive monitoring
of livestock animals, however, the lack of public datasets with well-defined targets and …

ASAS-NANP SYMPOSIUM: Applications of machine learning for livestock body weight prediction from digital images

Z Wang, S Shadpour, E Chan, V Rotondo… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Monitoring, recording, and predicting livestock body weight (BW) allows for timely
intervention in diets and health, greater efficiency in genetic selection, and identification of …

Information Technologies for Welfare Monitoring in Pigs and Their Relation to Welfare Quality®

MLV Larsen, M Wang, T Norton - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The assessment of animal welfare on-farm is important to ensure that current welfare
standards are followed. The current manual assessment proposed by Welfare …

Live weight prediction of cattle based on deep regression of RGB-D images

A Ruchay, V Kober, K Dorofeev, V Kolpakov, A Gladkov… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Predicting the live weight of cattle helps us monitor the health of animals, conduct genetic
selection, and determine the optimal timing of slaughter. On large farms, accurate and …