An innovative segment anything model for precision poultry monitoring

Xiao Yang, Haixing Dai, Zihao Wu, Ramesh Bist, Sachin Subedi, Jin Sun, Guoyu Lu, Changying Li, Tianming Liu, Lilong Chai

Abstract: Highlights•Precision farming technologies are important for sustainable poultry production.•Machine vision is applicable to monitor and track individual chickens.•The Segment Anything Model (SAM) was innovated to monitor hens.•The SAM achieved a mean intersection of union (mIoU) of 94.8% in monitoring hens.