arXiv:2606. 24986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated cattle posture-classification systems frequently report near-perfect accuracy, yet their robustness under realistic deployment conditions remains largely unknown.
By Leutrim Uka, Severino Pinto, Gundula Hoffmann, Marina M. -C. H\"ohne
arXiv:2607. 28652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early-life monitoring in laying hens remains constrained by fragmented single-modality sensing and the absence of formal system-level state representations.
By Yashan Dhaliwal, Shreya Rao, Suresh Neethirajan
arXiv:2606. 10940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Camera traps have become a cornerstone of biodiversity monitoring, but the artificial intelligence that turns vast quantities of images into usable ecological data is often locked behind commercial platforms or trained on fauna that does not match that of the British Isles.
By Paul Fergus, Philip Stephens, Russell A. Hill, Lee Oliver, Katie Appleby, Sarah Beatham, Naomi Davies Walsh, Stuart Nixon, Naomi Matthews, Chris Sutherland, Kelly Hitchcock
arXiv:2608. 06001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Commercial grazing systems yield irregular livestock observations, which challenge cattle growth forecasting.
By Muhammad Riaz Hasib Hossain, Rafiqul Islam, Shawn R. McGrath, Md Zahidul Islam, David W. Lamb
Camera traps have become a cornerstone of biodiversity monitoring, but the artificial intelligence that turns vast quantities of images into usable ecological data is often locked behind commercial platforms or trained on fauna that does not match that of the British Isles. In an attempt to remove barriers and increase uptake, we release an open-source object detection model for 31 classes, 28 common UK mammal and bird species, plus utility classes for humans, calibration poles, and vehicles, drawn from a curated dataset of 48,165 labelled instances assembled from multiple sites over a decade of operational deployment through Conservation AI and its successor, Trap Tracker.
arXiv:2604. 27128v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation-model pipelines for individual-level livestock monitoring -- combining open-vocabulary detection, promptable video segmentation, and self-supervised visual embeddings -- have raised the accuracy ceiling of precision livestock farming (PLF), but their GPU memory budgets exceed the envelope of commodity edge accelerators.
By Haiyu Yang, Miel Hostens