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Facial recognition spots happy pigs

Optics.org • Mar 26, 2019

Project from Scotland’s Rural College and UWE could alert farmers to animal health problems.

Facial recognition pigs

Assessing the emotional well-being of animals is challenging, although it can represent a valuable insight into their state of mind for farmers and vets alike.
The health of pigs is currently monitored to an extent using RFID tags, but pigs happen to be one farm animal known to be highly expressive and communicate with each other using different facial expressions.

The ability of humans to read porcine faces has been limited, but a collaboration between Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and machine vision experts at UWE in Bristol has now developed a possible route to monitoring and understanding these facial expressions more fully, using machine learning and facial recognition technology.

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BRL Research: Centre for Machine Vision

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