Ongoing | May 2024 - May 2025

Personal behavior profiles - tracking dogs for welfare monitoring

RG-2023-011

Keywords: welfare monitoring, dogs, personal behaviour profiles, deep/machine learning
Budget: CHF 24’800.-

Aim

  • We optimize our kennels for videorecording so that we are capable of applying the latest in deep/machine learning based animal tracking/welfare monitoring techniques

  • We use behaviour flow analysis to build individual behaviour profiles for each of the dogs at baseline and monitor how they change in response to training and treatment

  • We compare and contrast the new behavioural analysis approaches we apply to previous gold standard behavioural analysis techniques used in dogs

  • We increase the reliability and reproducibility of welfare monitoring in dogs and show that advanced behavioural analysis tools developed for rodents can be used in other species

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Dr Henning Richter

Diagnostic Imaging Research Unit
University of Zurich