Non-Contact Measurement of Pregnant Sows’ Backfat Thickness Based on a Hybrid CNN-ViT Model

Backfat thickness (BF) is closely related to the service life and reproductive performance of sows. The dynamic monitoring of sows’ BF is a critical part of the production process in large-scale pig farms. This study proposed the application of a hybrid CNN-ViT (Vision Transformer, ViT) model for me...

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Main Authors: Xuan Li, Mengyuan Yu, Dihong Xu, Shuhong Zhao, Hequn Tan, Xiaolei Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-07-01
Series:Agriculture
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/13/7/1395