This paper reviews the environmental impact of current livestock practices and discusses the
advantages offered by Precision Livestock Farming (PLF), as a potential strategy to mitigate …

The rise in the demand for animal products due to demographic and dietary changes has
exacerbated difficulties in addressing societal concerns related to the environment, human …

Intelligent lameness detection is important for improving cow welfare. A method based on
YOLOv3 deep learning algorithm and relative step size characteristic vector is proposed to …

The increasing demand for providing an animal-friendly environment that ensures animal
well-being and economic efficiency in animal farming leads to more advanced and efficient …

Machine learning applications are becoming more ubiquitous in dairy farming decision
support applications in areas such as feeding, animal husbandry, healthcare, animal …

Highlights•Fusion of RGB, optical flow and skeleton features for the detection of lameness in
dairy cows.•Cow skeletons are used to increase network attention to cows.•A spatial …

Radar sensors have been widely used to estimate speed and displacement of remote
targets. A novel market for contactless radar sensing is emerging in the field of …

Lameness represents a major welfare and health problem for the dairy industry across all
farming systems. Visual mobility scoring, although very useful, is labour-intensive and …

Animal pose estimation is important to understand animal behavior and injury. This is
especially the case with horse lameness. In the past, studies have focused on combining …

Human and animal classification under the rubble is necessary to successfully rescue
survivors post-disaster, and interference from other animals is becoming an issue in …