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PlayClass pipeline automates poultry play behavior classification

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Researchers have developed PlayClass, a new pipeline designed to automatically classify play behavior in poultry using top-down video analysis. The system employs long-duration tracking with SAM 3 and YOLO-guided chunking to improve accuracy, utilizing frozen embeddings from image and video foundation models. While handcrafted motion features showed competitive results, V-JEPA 2.1 demonstrated superior performance, achieving a 77.0 macro-averaged F1 score when integrated with these features. The study highlights the challenges of distinguishing play behaviors due to similar kinematic profiles and inter-bird occlusion, but offers promising evidence for automated animal welfare monitoring. AI

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PlayClass pipeline automates poultry play behavior classification

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Prince Ravi Leow (Section for Health Data Science & AI, University of Copenhagen), Neil Scheidwasser (Section for Health Data Science & AI, University of Copenhagen, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London), Rebecca Oscarss… ·

    PlayClass: Automated Play Behaviour Classification in Poultry

    arXiv:2605.27304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated monitoring of animal welfare has largely targeted negative indicators, leaving positive welfare behaviours such as play underexplored. To address this gap, we present PlayClass, a pipeline for play-behaviour classification…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · David Alejandro Duchêne ·

    PlayClass: Automated Play Behaviour Classification in Poultry

    Automated monitoring of animal welfare has largely targeted negative indicators, leaving positive welfare behaviours such as play underexplored. To address this gap, we present PlayClass, a pipeline for play-behaviour classification in poultry from top-down pen video. The pipelin…

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