Real time monitoring of pig activity: Practical difficulties in pigs' behaviour labelling

Precision Livestock Farming 2007 - Papers Presented at the 3rd European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 299-307

  Costa, Annamaria ^a   Mentasti, Tiziana ^a   Guarino, Marcella ^a   Leroy, Toon ^b   Berckmans, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Behaviour score; Health management; Image analysis; Labelling; Swine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY INDEX; ACTIVITY LEVELS; BEHAVIOUR SCORE; BEHAVIOURAL MODEL; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; HEALTH MANAGEMENT; REAL TIME MONITORING; SWINE;

DATA VISUALIZATION; FLOORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABELING; VIDEO RECORDING;

MAMMALS;

EID: 84890848082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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