Computational method for segmentation and classification of ingestive sounds in sheep

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 228-237

  Milone, D H ^a,b,d   Rufiner, H L ^b,d   Galli, J R ^c,d   Laca, E A ^d,f   Cangiano, C A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS   (Argentina)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic modelling; Grazing sheep; Hidden Markov models; Ingestive behaviour

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WOOL;

ACOUSTIC MODELLING; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; GRAZING SHEEP; INGESTIVE BEHAVIOUR; NOVEL METHODS; PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; SOUND SIGNALS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

ALFALFA; BIOACOUSTICS; CLASSIFICATION; FORAGE; INGESTION RATE; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SHEEP; SWARD;

DACTYLIS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 58649117133     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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