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Dear ___________

Firstly, an apology that I can’t speak Swedish!

My name is Miranda and I am a Master’s student in Sustainable Design at Linnaeus University in Växjö. I am working on a practical research project which aims to decrease cruelty in the egg farming industry by using technology to provide humane alternatives for large-scale commercial chicken farms

I found out about your farm from the Reko Ring, and I was wondering if you may be open to me coming to visit to do some research? Your small scale, free-range practices are exactly what we would like to convince big agri-business should be possible in the future.

The research would entail me taking some video footage of the chickens and where they live, seeing how they respond to a small robot prototype, and hopefully, if you have time, asking you some questions about your sustainable chicken farming practices.

I hope to hear from you, and that you are enjoying the sunshine!

All the very best,

Miranda Moss.

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Dear  Ulrika and Tomas  

Firstly, an apology that I can’t speak Swedish! I hope that’s ok.

My name is Miranda and I am a Master’s student in Sustainable Design at Linnaeus University in Växjö. I am working on a practical research project which aims to decrease cruelty in the mass egg farming industry by using technology to provide humane, cost-effective alternatives for large-scale commercial battery farms.

I found out about your farm from the Reko Ring, and I was wondering if you may be open to me coming to visit to do some research? Your small scale, free-range practices are exactly what we would like to convince big agri-business should be possible in the future.

The research would entail me taking some video footage of the chickens and where they live, seeing how they respond to a small robot prototype, and hopefully, if you have time, asking you some questions about your sustainable chicken farming practices.

I hope that you will be interested in contributing to research in pursuit of a more sustainable future! Please let me know if you have any questions. 

All the very best,
Miranda Moss.  

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chicken_research CNNs deep

Bird audio CNNs

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13103

Contest in 2017 for bird call neural nets. Best ones used mel spectrogram of the audio with convolutional neural networks.

The winning algorithm’s code is available: https://jobim.ofai.at/gitlab/gr/bird_audio_detection_challenge_2017/tree/master

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AI/ML chicken research chicken_research dev ears

Chicken Song Detection

We might get into some goal modification or behaviour triggering, when the robot detects specific chicken sounds.

It seems to be a thing people have been doing for a while: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fowl-language-ai-decodes-the-nuances-of-chicken-ldquo-speech-rdquo/

“Over the past five years, engineers and poultry scientists at The University of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology have been collaborating to help farmers like Mitchell make better use of the information latent in chicken chatter. In a series of studies published between 2014 and 2016, Georgia Tech research engineer Wayne Daley and his colleagues exposed groups of six to 12 broiler chickens to moderately stressful situations—such as high temperatures, increased ammonia levels in the air and mild viral infections—and recorded their vocalizations with standard USB microphones. They then fed the audio into a machine-learning program, training it to recognize the difference between the sounds of contented and distressed birds.”

For now, just pasting links to libraries and stuff.

librosa: https://librosa.github.io/librosa/
(python package for music and audio analysis)

Pandas: https://pandas.pydata.org/
(python data analysis in general)

If I’m going to do data science, I’ll probably need to install anaconda, https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/#download-section

Let’s see how far we can get without installing Anaconda. It’s like 500MB, and we might not use any of it. Miniconda seems to be the light weight version.

Chickens make these calls for air and ground predators:

https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/File/Aerial%20alarm%20calls.wav

https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/File/Ground%20alarm.wav

Will get back to this another time…