In this study, a method based on using image processing and artificial neural network is introduced to determine pelt color and curl size of newborn lambs in Zandi sheep. The data was collected from 300 newborn lambs reared in the Zandi sheep breeding centre of Khojir, Tehran. Primarily, curl size and pelt color of new born lambs was recorded by experienced appraisers, and at the same time, sev...

The Machine Vision Team of Industrial Research Limited (formerly part of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) is involved in a wide range of machine vision research and development projects. This paper gives an overview of three projects which have particular relevance to the meat industry. The projects discussed are: (i) development of a laser scanning inspection s...

The global population of clouded leopards (Neofelis nebulosa) is considered vulnerable worldwide [1], and were considered to be less abundant globally the 2016 assessment by the IUCN than the previous assessment in 2007 [1]. Clouded leopards currently range from the southeastern Himalayas across southeastern Asia, extending through southern China and into peninsular Malaysia [2-6] (Figure 1). T...

Can simple enrichments enhance caged mink welfare? Pilot data from 756 sub-adults spanning three colour-types (strains) identified potentially practical enrichments, and suggested beneficial effects on temperament and fur-chewing. Our main experiment started with 2032 Black mink on three farms: from each of 508 families, one juvenile male-female pair was enriched (E) with two balls and a hangin...

Small coded hole patterns can be branded, for identification purposes, on to sheep pelts. This paper describes our approach to the problem of automatically finding the pattern in a given back-lit wholepelt image and then recognising the orientation and other major components of that pattern despite noise and pattern warping. The pattern-finding stage principally uses binary morphology combined ...