Development of automatic surveillance of animal behaviour and welfare using image analysis and machine learned segmentation technique

Animal

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1859-1865

  Nilsson, M ^a   Herlin, A H ^b   Ardo H ^a   Guzhva, O ^b   Astrom K ^a   Bergsten, C ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

behaviour analysis; image segmentation; pigs; ratio of areas

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; SWINE;

EID: 84945488967     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731115001342     Document Type: Article

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