
DEFRA funded
Agricultural Computer-Vision
On-device livestock vision — a quantised YOLO model on iPhone estimates cattle weight and body condition from the camera, fusing LiDAR depth for weighbridge-grade accuracy.
- On-device, offline-first — a quantised YOLO model runs on iPhone at 30+ FPS (INT8) — inference is fully on-device, with no internet dependency.
- Camera + LiDAR depth fusion — camera vision (2–10m) augmented by LiDAR depth (0.3–2m optimal) for ±5% weight accuracy against a calibrated weighbridge.
- Vet-validated multi-output — weight, body-condition score, and visual health indicators, with BCS validated to 85% agreement against a veterinary surgeon.
- Data flywheel — COCO transfer learning fine-tuned on 3,000+ CVAT-annotated cattle images; anonymised data feeds back for continuous refinement, trained on a GPU cluster (AWS).

