Love thy neighbour: Automatic animal behavioural classification of acceleration data using the k-nearest neighbour algorithm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Bidder, Owen R ^a   Campbell, Hamish A ^b   Gómez Laich, Agustina ^c   Urgé, Patricia ^a   Walker, James ^a   Cai, Yuzhi ^d   Gao, Lianli ^b   Quintana, Flavio ^c,e   Wilson, Rory P ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e School of Management Swansea University ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BADGER; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIRD; CALCULATION; CAMEL; CHEETAH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORMORANT; DINGO; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; KANGAROO; MACHINE LEARNING; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEMETRY; WOMBAT; ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACCELEROMETRY; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84896769324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088609     Document Type: Article

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