A machine vision system to detect and count laying hens in battery cages

Manually counting hens in battery cages on large commercial poultry farms is a challenging task: time-consuming and often inaccurate. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a machine vision system that automatically counts the number of hens in battery cages. Automatically counting hens can...

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Main Authors: O. Geffen, Y. Yitzhaky, N. Barchilon, S. Druyan, I. Halachmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731120001676