Computer visual tracking of poultry

Sergeant, Derek M.; Boyle, R.; Forbes, M.

doi:10.1016/s0168-1699(98)00025-8

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“…Tracking large and continually varying numbers of animals, especially if crowded close together, calls for techniques quite different from the object identification methods used by EthoVision. Some progress has been made using techniques such as track segmentation and reconstruction (Buma, Moskal, & Liang, 1998) and active modeling and prediction of the animals' shapes (Bulpitt, Boyle, & Forbes, 2000;Sergeant, Boyle, & Forbes, 1988).…”

Section: Future Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

EthoVision: A versatile video tracking system for automation of behavioral experiments

Noldus

Spink

Tegelenbosch

2001

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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Section: Future Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

EthoVision: A versatile video tracking system for automation of behavioral experiments

Noldus

Spink

Tegelenbosch

2001

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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“…To track a large and continually varying number of animals, especially if crowded close together, calls for quite different techniques than the object identification methods used by EthoVision. Some progress has been made using techniques such as active modeling and prediction of the animals' shapes [79,80] and dynamic imaging with statistical analysis of detected body features [81].…”

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The EthoVision video tracking system—A tool for behavioral phenotyping of transgenic mice

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Tegelenbosch

Buma

et al. 2001

Physiology & Behavior

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“…In the poultry industry, a vision system was used to detect and track broiler chickens and identify the birds interacting with the drinker and feeder (Sergeant et al, 1998). Kato et al (1996) used a vision system in an aquatic environment to track and record the position and velocity of fish in a tank and successfully identified the left and right turning behaviour of the fish.…”

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A brief review of the application of machine vision in livestock behaviour analysis

Tscharke

Banhazi²

2016

JAI

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It is desirable to increase the frequency between livestock welfare assessments to enhance problem identification and consumer confidence in livestock welfare management. However, animal welfare is difficult to monitor in practice, due to the inefficiencies involved in manually documenting and determining, animal behaviour, social interaction and health condition of large numbers of animals. Furthermore, the effectiveness of a welfare assessment relies on the intuition of the observer which may vary considerably between assessors. Hence, this review investigates the application of machine vision systems to recognise and monitor the behaviour of animals in a quantitative manner. Behaviour-recognition concepts, techniques, and current behaviour monitoring systems are reviewed. Findings indicate that further research is required to develop systems that can monitor the behaviour and welfare of animals' more efficiently and effectively in commercially realistic environments. Introduction: Livestock Behaviour and Vision SystemsMeasuring and assessing the behaviour of livestock is important as it can be used to indicate their welfare status (Dutta et al., 2015;Porto et al., 2014). Behaviour is formed from an animal's continuous interaction with its environment (Figure 1). Animal behaviour is a response to an internal stimuli (physiological) such as hunger or an external stimuli such as climate. If the goal of the behaviour is not, or cannot, be achieved the animal may change its behaviour or physiological response (Busse et al., 2015). There is potential for welfare problems to arise when there are inadequate environmental enrichments to support the behavioural needs of livestock.It has been argued that the husbandry methods used in intensive livestock production have resulted in the deprivation of some naturally occurring behaviours (Fraser, 1983). Producers have a strong interest in maintaining the welfare of their livestock from both economic and ethical perspectives. As often proactive welfare management has a positive effect on a farm's production efficiency and the quality and marketability of the end product (Kashiha et al., 2013).The observation processes currently used to measure livestock behaviour are subjective, as farm workers perform the welfare assessment. The worker's involvement in these tasks are necessary and therefore increase the demand on the labour and costs associated with monitoring animal behaviour. These factors have potential to influence the level of attention each animal receives (Oczak et al., 2013;Pereira et al., 2013). Thus, behavioural measurements are open for interpretation and have potential to be overlooked.Given the problems mentioned above, this review investigates the application of machine vision systems to recognise and monitor the behaviour of animals in a quantitative manner. Specifically in this article, behaviour-recognition concepts, techniques, and current behaviour monitoring systems are reviewed. Applying machine vision systems to the behaviour recognition taskTo over...

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Computer visual tracking of poultry

Cited by 64 publications

References 8 publications

EthoVision: A versatile video tracking system for automation of behavioral experiments

EthoVision: A versatile video tracking system for automation of behavioral experiments

The EthoVision video tracking system—A tool for behavioral phenotyping of transgenic mice

A brief review of the application of machine vision in livestock behaviour analysis

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