This dissertation investigates practical pig health monitoring under real-farm constraints through an Environment-Individual-Reasoning perspective. In commercial group-housed barns, health risks arise from coupled dynamics across housing environment, ...
This dissertation investigates practical pig health monitoring under real-farm constraints through an Environment-Individual-Reasoning perspective. In commercial group-housed barns, health risks arise from coupled dynamics across housing environment, individual behavior, and growth, yet many precision livestock systems remain single-task and offer limited interpretability. As a result, farmers still face a semantic gap between heterogeneous numeric outputs (sensor streams, activity indices, and weight trajectories) and actionable daily management decisions. The core research problem is therefore formulated as producing reliable, low-cost, and auditable health assessments under noisy farm dynamics, limited annotations, and edge-deployment constraints.
To address this problem, an integrated pipeline is developed with validated module-level performance and a structured reporting interface. At the environmental layer, a closed-form continuous-time model is adopted to better capture control-induced fluctuations than discrete-time models, achieving an F1-best of 73.02% and an AUC-PR of 44.30% for anomaly detection on multi-sequence pig-house sensor streams. At the individual layer, identity-consistent biometric analytics in crowded pen videos are enabled via box-supervised instance segmentation with an explicit box-mask identity bridge, reaching 89.22% Box AP and 85.29% Mask AP while reducing annotation time by approximately 70% (26s vs. 94s per image). Building on stable identities, motion quantification integrates tracking with pixel-level optical flow to mitigate detection jitter and posture-induced confounds. For growth assessment, an AIGC-driven single-image 3D reconstruction pipeline with metric-scale prediction achieves accurate weight estimation (MAE of 1.48 kg, RMSE of 3.21 kg, and R2=97.88%), demonstrating that kilogram-level estimation is feasible without dedicated depth sensors when metric scale is explicitly recovered.
At the reasoning layer, daily assessment is formulated as evidence-grounded, template-constrained data-to-text generation. A unified JSON schema encodes pre-computed assessments, anomaly events, cohort baselines, and short histories to enforce evidence traceability, while a lightweight LLM serves as a constrained synthesis component to produce auditable four-section reports. Overall, the proposed framework bridges upstream analytics and operational decision support in a measurable and explainable manner, while remaining extensible to future system-level validation with fully synchronized farm datasets.