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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Keypoint Detection for Injury Identification during Turkey Husbandry Using Neural Networks.

Nina Volkmann, Claudius Zelenka, Archana Malavalli Devaraju, Johannes Brünger, Jenny Stracke, Birgit Spindler, Nicole Kemper, Reinhard Koch

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nina VolkmannScience and Innovation for Sustainable Poultry Production (WING), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, 49377 Vechta, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2870-9954
Claudius ZelenkaDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
Archana Malavalli DevarajuDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
Johannes BrüngerDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5118-145X
Jenny StrackeInstitute of Animal Science, Farm Animal Ethology, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
Birgit SpindlerInstitute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Animal Behavior, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, 30173 Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8638-0718
Nicole KemperInstitute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Animal Behavior, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, 30173 Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0092-4302
Reinhard KochDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4398-1569
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel · DEUniversity of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation · DEUniversity of Bonn · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Injurious pecking against conspecifics is a serious problem in turkey husbandry. Bloody injuries act as a trigger mechanism to induce further pecking, and timely detection and intervention can prevent massive animal welfare impairments and costly losses. Thus, the overarching aim is to develop a camera-based system to monitor the flock and detect injuries using neural networks. In a preliminary study, images of turkeys were annotated by labelling potential injuries. These were used to train a network for injury detection. Here, we applied a keypoint detection model to provide more information on animal position and indicate injury location. Therefore, seven turkey keypoints were defined, and 244 images (showing 7660 birds) were manually annotated. Two state-of-the-art approaches for pose estimation were adjusted, and their results were compared. Subsequently, a better keypoint detection model (HRNet-W48) was combined with the segmentation model for injury detection. For example, individual injuries were classified using "near tail" or "near head" labels. Summarizing, the keypoint detection showed good results and could clearly differentiate between individual animals even in crowded situations.

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Animal WelfareTurkeysAnimalsNeural Networks, Computeranimal welfarecrowded datasetinjury locationkeypoint detectionpose estimationturkeys

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