Automatic detection of play behaviour in young pigs as a measure of positive affective states.

Project Information

AutoPlayPig

Grant agreement ID: 842555

DOI 10.3030/842555

Project closed

EC signature date 11 April 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 178 320,00

EU contribution € 178 320,00

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

Publications

Conference proceedings (2)

First step to remote detection of locomotor play in young pigs: a preliminary study

Author(s): Mona Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen, Meiqing Wang, Sam Willems, Dong Liu, Tomas Norton
Published in: Precision Livestock Farming '22 : Papers presented at the 10th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, 2022, Page(s) 91-98, ISBN 978-83-965360-0-6
Publisher: The Organising Committee of the 10th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming (ECPLF), University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Potential of depth images to monitor feeder access in growing pigs: a methodological study

Author(s): Mona Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen, Tomas Norton
Published in: Precision Livestock Farming '22 : Papers presented at the 10th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, 2022, Page(s) 423-429, ISBN 978-83-965360-0-6
Publisher: The Organising Committee of the 10th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming (ECPLF), University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Play behaviour positively relates to weight gain, feeding behaviour and drinking behaviour in weaner pigs (Sus scrofa)

Author(s): Guilherme A. Franchi, Mona L.V. Larsen, Ida H. Kristoffersen, Jeanet F.M. Winters, LeneJuul Pedersen, Margit Bak Jensen
Published in: Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2023, ISSN 1872-9045
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2023.105836

Investigating the effects of two weaning methods and two genetic hybrids on play behavior in weaner pigs (Sus scrofa)

Author(s): Guilherme A. Franchi, Mona L. V. Larsen, Jeanet F. M. Winters, Margit Bak Jensen, Lene Juul Pedersen
Published in: Frontiers in Animal Science, 2022, ISSN 2673-6225
Publisher: Lausanne Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fanim.2022.909038

Contactless Video-Based Heart Rate Monitoring of a Resting and an Anesthetized Pig

Author(s): Meiqing Wang, Ali Youssef, Mona Larsen, Jean-Loup Rault, Daniel Berckmans, Jeremy N. Marchant-Forde, Joerg Hartung, André Bleich, Mingzhou Lu, Tomas Norton
Published in: Animals, 2021, ISSN 2076-2615
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ani11020442

Information Technologies for Welfare Monitoring in Pigs and Their Relation to Welfare Quality®

Author(s): Mona L. V. Larsen, Meiqing Wang, Tomas Norton
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 13/2, 2021, Page(s) 692, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su13020692

A computer vision approach for recognition of the engagement of pigs with different enrichment objects

Author(s): Chen Chen, Weixing Zhu, Maciej Oczak, Kristina Maschat, Johannes Baumgartner, Mona Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen, Tomas Norton
Published in: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Issue 175, 2020, Page(s) 105580, ISSN 0168-1699
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2020.105580