Dog's life: Wearable activity recognition for dogs

UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 415-418

  Ladha, Cassim ^a   Hammerla, Nils ^a   Hughes, Emma ^a   Olivier, Patrick ^a   Plötz, Thomas ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Animal wellbeing; Dog; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DOG; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR; STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION; WEARABLE COMPUTING; WELLBEING;

ANIMALS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84885201896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493432.2493519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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