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AI Could Hold the Key to Improving Animal Welfare | Ambrook Research

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Emma Baxter never intended to become an expert in artificial intelligence. As an associate professor of animal and veterinary science at Scotland’s Rural College, her work is focused on breeding swine and improving the environments in which they are raised. But when a software company needed a pig expert to help validate an automated livestock feeding system they had in the works, they called her. Read Next More Human Contact Could Benefit Dairy Calves — Maybe Should California's Animal Welfare Laws Affect National Pork Production? The Supreme Court Is About to Decide. Is There a Better Way to Deal With Wild Cattle? The company’s goals for their project were relatively straightforward: They wanted to use facial recognition to enable their feeders to provide individualized diets for specific animals. And by the end of the project, Baxter said, they had developed a neural network that could identify individual pigs with 97% accuracy using a basic webcam. Baxter, however, came to believe

Consumers have shown they are willing to pay more for meat from happy livestock. New technology bears the promise of accurately assessing animal emotions. Emma Baxter never intended to become an expert in artificial intelligence. As an associate professor of animal and veterinary science at Scotland’s Rural College, her work is focused on breeding swine and improving the environments in which they are raised. But when a software company needed a pig expert to help validate an automated livestock feeding system they had in the works, they called her. Read Next More Human Contact Could Benefit D

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