In this paper, we propose an automatic convolutional neural network (CNN)-based method to recognize the chicken behavior within a poultry farm using a Kinect sensor. It resolves the hardships in flock behavior image classification by leveraging a data-driven mechanism and exploiting non-manually extracted multi-scale image features which combine both the local and global characteristics of the image. To our best knowledge, this is probably the first attempt of deep learning strategy in the field of domestic animal behavior recognition. To testify the performance of our proposed method, we conducted experiments between state-of-the-art methods and our method. Experimental results witness that our proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods both in effectiveness and efficiency. Our proposed CNN architecture for recognizing flock behavior of chickens produces an extremely impressive accuracy of 99.17%.
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