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- Title
Keypoint Detection for Injury Identification during Turkey Husbandry Using Neural Networks.
- Authors
Volkmann, Nina; Zelenka, Claudius; Devaraju, Archana Malavalli; Brünger, Johannes; Stracke, Jenny; Spindler, Birgit; Kemper, Nicole; Koch, Reinhard
- 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.
- Subjects
AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL welfare; WOUNDS &; injuries
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2022, Vol 22, Issue 14, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s22145188