mandrIAno, our project combining drones and artificial intelligence for livestock monitoring, has been selected in the Horizon Europe CHAMELEON first open call (Grant Agreement No. 101060529).

The mandrIAno (Artificial Intelligence-empowered stockman) project will adopt a semantic computer vision system that, starting from the videos collected using a drone, is able to produce a report in natural language in which the artificial intelligent component provides information related to the positioning of the monitored animals (in association with data provided by GPS); the count of animals in a group; and describes, through the use of a transformer-based visual question answering model and a language model component, the environment in which the animals are detected, highlighting the context and environmental features of the scene.

The mandrIAno project has indirectly received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation action programme, via the CHAMELEON Open Call #1 issued and executed under the CHAMELEON project (Grant Agreement no. 101060529).