Get updated on the latest news and events within our team
10 April 2023
Congratulations to Endai on his publication, A Semi-Supervised Generative Adversarial Network for Amodal Instance Segmentation of Piglets in Farrowing Pens, in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture!
02 Feb 2023
Congratulations to Li on his PhD offer Department of Infectious Disease and Public Health of City University Hong Kong!
20 Jan 2023
Welcome to our new PhD, Mae Nidhi!
26 Nov 2022
Congratulations to Endai for his award at the 8th Hong Kong University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition cum National University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competitions (HKSAR) Awards Ceremony!
02 Dec 2022
A warm welcome to our new research assistant, Li Lyu!
23 Nov 2022
Farewell to Haiming, our postdoc. It was a pleasure to have you on our team and we wish you all the best in all your future endeavors.
12 Nov 2022
Group cycling day from Tai Wai to Tai Mei Tuk!
11 Oct 2022
Congratulations to Kai on receiving a grant funding from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Equine Welfare Research Foundation! The project will be focused on the use of wearable sensors for monitoring racehorse behaviour!
04 Oct 2022
Group day out! Full day hiking through section 2 of the Maclehose Trail in Sai Kung
01 Sep 2022
Congratulations to Max on passing her annual PhD report! Well done! Max was also awarded with the research tuition scholarship from
01 Sep 2022
Congratulations to Max and Haiming on the acceptance of their oral presentation submissions for the 2nd U.S. Precision Livestock Farming Conference 2023!
Max's presentation will be on "Robust Animal Activity Recognition Using Wearable Sensors: A Knowledge Distillation-Based Method toward Data with Low Sampling Rates". Haiming will be presenting on "Occlusion-Resistant Locomotion Analysis of Piglets Using Amodal Instance Segmentation".
30 Aug 2022
Max, Endai and Haiming present their research findings at the 2022 European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming
Haiming - Poster session: "Automated detection and analysis of piglet suckling behaviour using high-accuracy amodal instance segmentation
Max - Oral presentation: "Uniting farms: Federated learning for sensor-based animal activity recognition"
Endai - Oral presentation: "Occlusion-resistant spatial analysis of pig distribution pattern in farrowing pens using center clustering network
26 Aug 2022
Welcome to our two new students, George Zhaojin Guo (MSc) and Zheng He (PhD)!
21 Aug 2022
Congrats to Max, Endai and Haiming for their publication in Animals, on "FedAAR: A Novel Federated Learning Framework for Animal Activity Recognition with Wearable Sensors"
01 Aug 2022
Congrats to Haiming on his publication "Automated detection and analysis of piglet suckling behaviour using high-accuracy amodal instance segmentation" in COMPAG!
29 Jun 2022
International press attention received for work on chicken distress vocalisations, as seen in The Guardian, New Scientist, and Science
31 May 2022
Congratulations to Max on the acceptance of her manuscript "Automated identification of chicken distress vocalisations using deep learning models" in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface!
01 Jun 2022
Congratulations to Haiming on being awarded a distinction from successfully completing his PhD defence at South China Agricultural University! He will rejoin our team as a Post-doctoral researcher in August 2022.
01 May 2022
Congratulations to Haiming on his publication "Spatiotemporal Graph Convolutional Network for Automated Detection and Analysis of Social Behaviours among Pre-weaning Piglet" in Biosystems Engineering!
01 Apr 2022
Congratulations to Endai, Max and Haiming on having their presentation submissions accepted into the 2022 European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming!
27 Nov 2021
Group outing day to Tai Lam Chung Reservoirs! Very beautiful day to go hiking!
21 Oct 2021
Max and Endai present their research findings at the ISAEW 2021
30 Dec 2021
Welcome to our new visiting Master's students, Mingqiang Ou!
23 Oct 2021
Congratulations to Max on being awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper and Presentation Award at the 2021 ISAEW! Well done!
03 Sep 2021
Congratulations to Endai on his publication, "Center Clustering Network Improves Piglet Counting Under Occlusion", in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (COMPAG)!
29 Aug 2021
Congratulations to Max on her publication in SENSORS, on "Cross-Modality Interaction Network for Equine Activity Recognition Using Imbalanced Multi-Modal Data"
12 Jul 2021
Congrats to Endai and Max on the acceptance of their paper submission into the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ASABE) 2021, on "Capacity Limit of Deep Learning Methods on Scenarios of Pigs in Farrowing Pen under Occlusion"
01 Aug 2021
Congratulations to Max on passing her annual PhD report!
24 May 2021
Welcome to Haiming Gan, a visiting PhD student from South China Agricultural University! He will also be joining us as a Research Assistant.
01 Sep 2021
Congratulations to Haiming on his publication "Automated detection and analysis of social behaviors among preweaning piglets using key point-based spatial and temporal features" in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (COMPAG)!
01 Oct 2021
Congratulation to Haiming on his publication "Fast and accurate detection of lactating sow nursing behavior with CNN-based optical flow and features" in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture!
02 Dec 2021
Team visit to Ocean Park
28 Dec 2021
Welcome to our new visiting Master's students, Mingqiang Ou!
01 Apr 2021
Congratulations to Max and Endai on the acceptance of two paper submissions into the International Symposium on Animal Environment and Welfare (ISAEW) 2021. They will be presented in the form of oral presentations:
"Cross-Modality Interaction Network for Equine Activity Recognition Using Time-Series Motion Data"
"A Key Frame Selection Method for Creating Deep Learning Training Set in Animal Research Involving Time-Series Video Data"
01 Oct 2020
Congratulations to Endai and Max on the acceptance of their paper submission into the Asian Conference on Precision Livestock Farming (ACPLF) 2020!
Their paper is on "Deep learning-based assessment of laying-hen feather conditions using color and thermal images"
01 Sep 2020
Congratulations to Max on passing her PhD qualifying exam and review!
01 Oct 2019
Welcome to new PhD student, Axiu Mao (Max), as Dr. Liu's first PhD student!
07 Sep 2019
Welcome Endai Huang, a PhD student from CS at CityU! He will join in SmartAM and will be co-supervised by Dr. Liu.
06 Mar 2019
Dr. Kai LIU joined CityU as an Assistant Professor and a Principle Investigator. He established the Smart Animal Management Lab (SmartAM).