Beef Cattle Instance Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Neural Network [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 We present an instance segmentation algorithm trained and applied to a CCTV recording of beef cattle during a winter finishing period. A fully convolutional network was transformed into an instance segmentation network that learns to label each instance of an animal separately.
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AI-Powered Cow Detection in Complex Farm Environments [PDF]
Animal welfare has become a critical issue in contemporary society, emphasizing our ethical responsibilities toward animals, particularly within livestock farming. The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, specifically computer vision, offers an innovative approach to monitoring and enhancing animal welfare.
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Online Collective Animal Movement Activity Recognition [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Learning the activities of animals is important for the purpose of monitoring their welfare vis a vis their behaviour with respect to their environment and conspecifics. While previous works have largely focused on activity recognition in a single animal, little or no work has been done in learning the collective behaviour of animals.
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Time Series Classification to Improve Poultry Welfare [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Poultry farms are an important contributor to the human food chain. Worldwide, humankind keeps an enormous number of domesticated birds (e.g. chickens) for their eggs and their meat, providing rich sources of low-fat protein. However, around the world, there have been growing concerns about the quality of life for the livestock in poultry farms; and ...
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Heredity and Eugenlcs. A Course of Lectures Summarizing Recent Advances. In Knowledge In Variation, Heredity and Evolution, and its Relation to Plant, Animal and Human Improvement and Welfare [PDF]
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Beyond Cortisol! Physiological Indicators of Welfare for Dogs: Deficits, Misunderstandings and Opportunities [PDF]
arXivThis paper aims to initiate new conversations about the use of physiological indicators when assessing the welfare of dogs. There are significant concerns about construct validity - whether the measures used accurately reflect welfare. The goal is to provide recommendations for future inquiry and encourage debate.
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AniMer: Animal Pose and Shape Estimation Using Family Aware Transformer [PDF]
arXivQuantitative analysis of animal behavior and biomechanics requires accurate animal pose and shape estimation across species, and is important for animal welfare and biological research. However, the small network capacity of previous methods and limited multi-species dataset leave this problem underexplored.
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The UFAW Courier. Published by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare. Price 3d. [PDF]
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