Title
Time Series Classification To Improve Poultry Welfare
Abstract
Poultry farms are an important contributor to the human food chain. Worldwide, humankind keeps an enormous number of domesticated birds (e.g. chickens) for their eggs and their meat, providing rich sources of low-fat protein. However, around the world, there have been growing concerns about the quality of life for the livestock in poultry farms; and increasingly vocal demands for improved standards of animal welfare. Recent advances in sensing technologies and machine learning allow the possibility of automatically assessing the health of some individual birds, and employing the lessons learned to improve the welfare for all birds. This task superficially appears to be easy, given the dramatic progress in recent years in classifying human behaviors, and given that human behaviors are presumably more complex. However, as we shall demonstrate, classifying chicken behaviors poses several unique challenges, chief among which is creating a generalizable "dictionary" of behaviors from sparse and noisy data. In this work we introduce a novel time series dictionary learning algorithm that can robustly learn from weakly labeled data sources.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00102
2018 17TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS (ICMLA)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Similarity Search, Classification, Motif Discovery, Chicken Behavior, Animal Welfare
Conference
abs/1811.03149
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alireza Abdoli120.72
Amy C. Murillo241.78
Chin-Chia Yeh315814.23
Alec C. Gerry420.38
Eamonn J. Keogh511859645.93