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Describing Behavior Sequences of Fattening Pigs Using Process Mining on Video Data and Automated Pig Behavior Recognition

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  • Andreas Melfsen

    (Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany)

  • Arvid Lepsien

    (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany)

  • Jan Bosselmann

    (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany)

  • Agnes Koschmider

    (Business & Information Systems Engineering, Faculty of Law, Business and Economics, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
    Fraunhofer FIT, 95444 Bayreuth, Germany)

  • Eberhard Hartung

    (Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany)

Abstract

This study aimed to demonstrate the application of process mining on video data of pigs, facilitating the analysis of behavioral patterns. Video data were collected over a period of 5 days from a pig pen in a mechanically ventilated barn and used for analysis. The approach in this study relies on a series of individual steps to allow process mining on this data set. These steps include object detection and tracking, spatiotemporal activity recognition in video data, and process model analysis. Each step gives insights into pig behavior at different time points and locations within the pen, offering increasing levels of detail to describe typical pig behavior up to process models reflecting different behavior sequences for clustered datasets. Our data-driven approach proves suitable for the comprehensive analysis of behavioral sequences in conventional pig farming.

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  • Andreas Melfsen & Arvid Lepsien & Jan Bosselmann & Agnes Koschmider & Eberhard Hartung, 2023. "Describing Behavior Sequences of Fattening Pigs Using Process Mining on Video Data and Automated Pig Behavior Recognition," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-20, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jagris:v:13:y:2023:i:8:p:1639-:d:1221251
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