Development of a threshold-based classifier for real-time recognition of cow feeding and standing behavioural activities from accelerometer data

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 134, Issue , 2017, Pages 124-134

  Arcidiacono, C ^a   Porto, S M C ^a   Mancino, M ^a   Cascone, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Building for dairy farming; Cow feeding activity; Cow standing activity; Precision livestock farming; Sensors; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEEDING; SENSORS;

COW FEEDING; DAIRY FARMING; MISCLASSIFICATION RATES; PRECISION LIVESTOCK FARMING; REAL TIME COMPUTING; REAL TIME RECOGNITION; THRESHOLD-BASED CLASSIFIERS; THRESHOLDS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

ACCELEROMETER; ACTIVITY PATTERN; DAIRY FARMING; DATA SET; EQUIPMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIVESTOCK; MOVEMENT; REAL TIME; SENSOR; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85012241703     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2017.01.021     Document Type: Article

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