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The automatic detection of pigs in camera images from within the barn helps scientists and farmers to detect abnormal behaviour or problematic housing conditions and to investigate the causes. An established method for determining the position of pigs is the binary segmentation of the image and the subsequent modeling of the individual animals. Many studies are based on elliptical models because they...