CORRECTION article

Front. Anim. Sci., 25 July 2025

Sec. Precision Livestock Farming

Volume 6 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fanim.2025.1596819

Correction: Individual behavior tracking of heifers by using object detection algorithm YOLOv4

  • 1. Institute of Epidemiology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

  • 2. Animal Health Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, Neubrandenburg, Germany

  • 3. Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

  • 4. Animal Health and Animal Welfare, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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Author “Robert Kammerer” was omitted as an author in the published article. Author “Anne K. Schütz1” was incorrectly listed as last author. The correct author list reads:

“Sarah Jahn1*, Gabriel Schmidt2, Lisa Bachmann2, Robert Kammerer3, Helen Louton4, Anne K. Schütz1† and Timo Homeier-Bachmann1*†

The citation and copyright have also been updated.

The Author Contributions statement has been corrected to read:

“SJ: Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. GS: Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing. LB: Project administration, Writing – review & editing. RK: Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing. HL: Supervision, Writing – review & editing. AS: Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing. TH-B: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing”

Affiliation “Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany” was omitted from the paper. This affiliation has now been added for author Robert Kammerer.

The location of the animal experiment was omitted, and the authors erroneously asserted that heifers were clinically unremarkable during the entire duration of the experiment.

A correction has been made to the section 2 Materials and methods, 2.1 Experimental setup, Paragraph 1:

“The video material used in this study was recorded during an animal experiment (authorized by the local authority in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Landesamt für Landwirtschaft, Lebensmittelsicherheit und Fischerei (LALLF) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), # FLI-7221.3-1-047/17) at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut on the isle of Riems – Greifswald (Germany). Heifers were infected with mycoplasma (Mycoplasma mycoides) (Hänske et al., 2023). Therefore, for biosafety reasons, the experiment was carried out in the biosafety level 2 animal facility at the FLI. A total of 20 heifers (Bos Taurus) of the Holstein Friesian breed were divided into four groups of five animals. No obvious clinical symptoms were recognizable in the video material used. Only three pens were equipped with cameras, therefore only three groups could be monitored by cameras 24 hours per day.”

There was a mistake in Figure 2 as published. New images with a clearer description over the functionality of the model were chosen. The corrected Figure 2 appears below.

Figure 2

Funding from the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Contract no. 81170269; Project No.13.1432.7-001.00) and the German Research Foundation (Project number 521734223) to RK was erroneously omitted.

In the Acknowledgements, the following sentence was omitted:

“We thank Jana Hänske, Martin Heller and Joerg Jores for their contribution to the animal experiment.”

The original version of this article has been updated.

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animal behavior, computer vision, YOLO(v4), heifer, individual detection, Holstein Friesian

Citation

Jahn S, Schmidt G, Bachmann L, Kammerer R, Louton H, Schütz AK and Homeier-Bachmann T (2025) Correction: Individual behavior tracking of heifers by using object detection algorithm YOLOv4. Front. Anim. Sci. 6:1596819. doi: 10.3389/fanim.2025.1596819

Received

20 March 2025

Accepted

04 July 2025

Published

25 July 2025

Volume

6 - 2025

Edited and reviewed by

Oleksiy Guzhva, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

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Copyright

*Correspondence: Sarah Jahn, ; Timo Homeier-Bachmann,

†These authors share senior authorship

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All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

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