Application for Intelligent Farrowing Pen submitted

Today we submitted our proposal concerning the intelligent farrowing pen. This grant follows our efforts in the network described on the home page Intelligent Farrowing pen.

n addition we have updated the home-page with a page describing the børsdag.

From the new page our presentations at the meetings may be downloaded. On another new page we show three video-sequences of farrowing behaviour. My first attempt at using Google Video, which is quite straight-forward.

Børsdag

On wednesday 4/10 we presented our ideas concerning the Intelligent Farrowing pen for several companies. The Børsdag was arranged by the Tech-Trans group at DIAS, in order to improve the contact between the researchers at DIAS. Our network joined this arrangement and in addition we had a separate meeting with the companies at the end of the day.

PigVision images to be reanalysed

Morten Birkholm, who participated in the PigVision project as an employee at Videometer, is currently participating in a course at IMM at the Danish Technical University. As a project in that course he wants to reanalyse the pig images from the experimental setup at Grønhøj. Originally the images were analysed using Active Shape Models (ASM), and now he wants to apply Active Appearence Modelling (AAM) to the images. I have sent him the approximately 1000 images with corresponding weights, and I look forward to see the results in the beginning of June. If you visit Tim Cootes' home page you can find more information about the techniques. By the way, tomorrow I am censor on master thesis about delivery strategies for slaughter pigs. Another off-spring of the PigVision project.

Network for Intelligent Farrowing Pen

Our application about the Intelligent farrowing pen of the future has been granted. The purpose is to establish a network between researchers, IT-companies and Housing companies. Lene Juul Pedersen is the project leader.