A systematic review on validated precision livestock farming technologies for pig production and its potential to assess animal welfare

Y Gómez, AH Stygar, IJMM Boumans… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Several precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies, conceived for optimizing farming
processes, are developed to detect the physical and behavioral changes of animals …

Causes, consequences and biomarkers of stress in swine: an update

S Martínez-Miró, F Tecles, M Ramón, D Escribano… - BMC veterinary …, 2016 - Springer
Background In recent decades there has been a growing concern about animal stress on
intensive pig farms due to the undesirable consequences that stress produces in the normal …

[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 …

Cattle segmentation and contour extraction based on Mask R-CNN for precision livestock farming

Y Qiao, M Truman, S Sukkarieh - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2019 - Elsevier
In precision livestock farming, computer vision based approaches have been widely used to
obtain individual cattle health and welfare information such as body condition score, live …

[HTML][HTML] Early detection of health and welfare compromises through automated detection of behavioural changes in pigs

SG Matthews, AL Miller, J Clapp, T Plötz… - The Veterinary Journal, 2016 - Elsevier
Early detection of health and welfare compromises in commercial piggeries is essential for
timely intervention to enhance treatment success, reduce impact on welfare, and promote …

Implementation of machine vision for detecting behaviour of cattle and pigs

A Nasirahmadi, SA Edwards, B Sturm - Livestock Science, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Recording behaviour of indoor-housed farm animals automatically using machine vision technology: A systematic review

K Wurtz, I Camerlink, RB D'Eath, AP Fernández… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Large-scale phenoty** of animal behaviour traits is time consuming and has led to
increased demand for technologies that can automate these procedures. Automated …

On-barn pig weight estimation based on body measurements by a Kinect v1 depth camera

A Pezzuolo, M Guarino, L Sartori, LA González… - … and electronics in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on the daily growth rate of pigs enables the stockman to monitor their
performance and health and to predict and control their market weight and date. Manual …

Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare

M Špinka - Animal welfare, 2019 - cambridge.org
In nature, animals need to actively engage with the environment in order to prosper in
survival and reproduction. Hence, agency is a central adaptive characteristic of animal life …

Automatic individual pig detection and tracking in pig farms

L Zhang, H Gray, X Ye, L Collins, N Allinson - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Individual pig detection and tracking is an important requirement in many video-based pig
monitoring applications. However, it still remains a challenging task in complex scenes, due …