Automatic detection of cow's oestrus in audio surveillance system

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1030-1037

  Chung, Y ^a   Lee, J ^a   Oh, S ^a   Park, D ^a   Chang, H H ^a,b   Kim, S ^a,b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cow's oestrus detection; Feature subset selection; Mel frequency cepstrum coefficient; Sound data; Support vector data description

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880292439     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: 19765517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2012.12628     Document Type: Article

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