Adrien Kroese

Hi,
My name is Adrien Kroese (he/him) and I study how cows mooove 🐄

I graduated in engineering from ISARA-Lyon (France) and with an MSc in Organic Agriculture from Wageningen university (Netherlands). After working in the sugar cane industry, analysing satelite images to optimise the timing of crop interventions, I started studying for a PhD at SLU using computer vision to monitor cow welfare.

Languages: English, French, Portuguese & Swedish 

Research Project

How can we improve dairy cow welfare with computer vision?

This is the question central to my research. As herds get larger, the risk increases that health and welfare issues go unnoticed. Welfare assessment of animals can difficultly be performed continuously by assessors.

My research, in collboration with Sony Nordic aims at adressing this gap by developping multi-sensor tools to monitor the behaviour and comfort indicators of dairy cows. More specifically, I interpret data from pose estimation in 3D to monitor indicators of comfort in cubicles and around resting... as well as trying to find new opportunities for more continuous monitoring. For example, behavioural signs of positive welfare states remain ambiguous. My hope is that such technology can help generate data to better understand the behaviours that cows display in barns.

Research Grants

2025-01311 – FORMAS 3.9M SEK – 2025-10-21 for a research project on automated rumen fill scoring and health alerts for dairy cows. Main applicant: Adrien Kroese, co-applicants: Moudud Alam, Hanna Eriksson, Dorota Anglart, Niclas Högberg, Lena-Mari Tamminen, Ulf Emmanuelsson.

Djurskyddet Kronoberg – 92 425 SEK for an experiment on flexible neck rails to improve cow comfort in cubicles. Main applicant: Adrien Kroese

SLU.ua.2023.3.2.5-3815 – SLU Internationalisation grant – 49 000 SEK  - 2023-10-17 for a research exchange at PUC-PR, Brazil. Main applicant: Adrien Kroese

Sony Nordic, Högskolan Dalarna, Växa Sverige, RISE

MSc Organic Agriculture - Wageningen University and Research

Engineer - ISARA-Lyon

Kroese, A., Alam, M., Hernlund, E., Berthet, D., Tamminen, L.-M., Fall, N., & Högberg, N. (2024). 3D pose estimation to detect posture transition in free-stall housed dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2023-24427

Kroese, A. H., Högberg, N., Diaz Vicuna, E., Berthet, D., Fall, N., Alam, M., & Tamminen, L.-M. (2024). Evaluating the automated measurement of abnormal rising and lying down behaviours in dairy cows using 3D pose estimation. Smart Agricultural Technology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025.101205

Högberg, N.,  Berthet, D., Alam, M., Nielsen, P., Tamminen, L.-M., Fall, N., Kroese, A. (2025)  Exploring pose estimation as a tool for the assessment of brush use patterns in dairy cows. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2025.106746

Kroese, A., Hörgberg, N., Berthet, D., Tamminen, L.-M., Fall, N., & Alam, M. (2024). Exploring the link between cow size and sideways lunging using 3D pose estimation. 11th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, 32–39. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1916993&dswid=7796

Kroese, A., Melo-Pankratz, J., Högberg, N., Tamminen, L. M., Fall, N., Alam, M., Daros, R. (2025) Reducing annotation dependency in automated rumen-fill scoring through pairwise comparisons and curvature analysis. Animal - Science Proceedings 3rd US Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, pp 207-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anscip.2025.08.247