Enhancing Poultry Welfare with Chicken Pose Detection on Matrice
Understanding animal behavior is critical in modern poultry farming. Monitoring specific chicken poses—such as eating, drinking, moving, and resting—provides valuable insights into health, welfare, and environmental conditions.
Matrice makes it easy to deploy AI models for pose detection with no code. Using YOLOv8, YOLOv9 and Matrice’s powerful interface, we built a system to automatically detect and classify chicken behaviors in real time.
This blog explains how we built the chicken pose detection system using Matrice:
Dataset Preparation
Dataset Annotation
Model Training
Model Inference
Model Deployment
Dataset Preparation
The dataset contains annotated images of chickens in different poses like:
Eat/Drink
Moving
Resting
Aggressive/Alert
Total Images: 1,711
Training Set: 1,346 images
Validation Set: 188 images
Test Set: 177 images
Each image is annotated with bounding boxes and pose labels.
Model Training
We used YOLOv8 for its real-time detection capability and high performance on livestock datasets.
Batch Size: 16
Epochs: 50
Learning Rate: 0.001
Optimizer: Auto
Momentum: 0.95
Weight Decay: 0.0005
The model achieved high accuracy in detecting fine-grained behavior patterns.
Model Inference
The trained model supports fast inference and can be exported in formats like:
PyTorch (.pt)
ONNX
TensorRT
OpenVINO
This enables flexible deployment in both cloud and edge devices such as smart cameras in poultry farms.
Model Deployment
Matrice enables seamless deployment with its no-code AI builder. Farmers or technicians can:
Monitor chicken behavior in real time
Receive alerts for abnormal patterns
Visualize data on an interactive dashboard
Key Applications:
Welfare monitoring in broiler or layer farms
Early detection of stress or illness
Smart feeding and lighting systems
Conclusion
With chicken pose detection using AI, poultry farms can improve animal health, reduce mortality, and optimize operations. Powered by Matrice, deploying such models becomes effortless—bringing precision livestock farming to reality.
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