Parallel sessions

WEDNESDAY 11/09/2024 – 11:45 – 13:00

SESSION 26 – COWS HEALTH & DISEASE DETECTION 2

Sala Italia

Chairman: Daniel Berckmans

Innovative Off-Body Monitoring of Dairy Calves’ Vital Signs for Early Disease Detection: A Thermal Imaging Approach
Maha Yousfi, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

Validity of rumination-based health alerts in early lactation
Michael Iwersen, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria

Provision of automatic milking-system alerts for potential incidence of mastitis: a comparative study between stationary classification and time-series regression modelling
Elsa Vasseur, Mcgill University, Canada

Prototyping PLF algorithms real-time
Thomas Andersen, SEGES Innovation P/S, Denmark

Automatic monitoring of calves’ behaviour for prediction of health and growth performance
Riccardo Colleluori, University of Bologna, Italy

 

SESSION 27 – GRAZING COWS REMOTE MONITORING

Sala avorio

Chairman: Ludovica Mammi

Validation of an in-field weigh station for recording cattle liveweight
Faysal Mehedi Hasan, The University of Sydney, Australia

Automated cattle segmentation from UAV-based LiDAR point clouds
Yaowu Wang, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

Re-learning process in dairy cows pastured with virtual fencing system
Andrea Confessore, University of Florence, Italy

Automated airborne monitoring of livestock using autonomous uninhabited aerial vehicles with vision-based remote sensing
Kaya Kuru, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom

SESSION 28 – COMPUTER VISION PIGS POSTURE MONITORING

Sala bianca

Chairman: Carmen Alonso

DeMVpp-YOLO: A lightweight pig behaviour detection model for improving pig health management in farrowing pens
Zhaojin Guo, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Synthetic Data as an optimisation tool for Pose Estimation in pigs
Sarah Juarez, the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria

Real-time Pose Estimation for Suckling Piglets Using Affordable Surveillance Cameras
Zheng He, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sow Confinement and Piglet Safety: can PLF sort out the welfare dilemma?
Francesca Menegon, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Italy

Evaluation of alternative farrowing pen layouts
Tami Brown-Brandl, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States

SESSION 29 – POULTRY MICROCLIMATE

Sala verde

Chairman: Ali Youssef

Effects of a twin shell building and proactive ventilation on energy and water expenditure in a broiler barn
Stephanie Schäfers, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany

Odour Characterisation of Poultry Red Mites by TD-GC-MS: Potential Application for Early Detection and Monitoring of Infestations in Commercial Laying Hen Farms
Pascalle Deenekamp, Radboud University, Netherlands

Effects of an automatic forced ventilation system on air temperature and litter humidity in turkey barns
Stephanie Schäfers, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany

Revised Gini coefficienta new index to evaluate the environmental parameter distribution in poultry buildings
Chao Liang, China

Performance of a Rail-Mounted Robot in Southeastern U.S. Broiler Production House
Shawn Hawkins, The University of Tennessee, United States

SESSION 30 – SHEEP & GOATS

Sala rossa

Chairman: Carlo Bibbiani

Assessment of Preprocessing Factors Impacting the Prediction of Goat Behavior from Accelerometer Data
Daniel Alexander Mendez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Identification of the best body regions for measuring superficial skin temperature (SST) in Diary Goats exposed to thermal stress
Naod Thomas Masebo, University of Bologna, Italy

Determination of soil carbon content in two contrasting rangeland managements through remote sensing in Chilean Patagonia
Sergio Radic-Schilling, Universidad de Magallanes, Chile

The impact of a “smart water trough” on a sheep and goats smallholder farm
Ilan Halachmi, Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) Lab, Israel