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DrRebeccaStewart

Faculty of Engineering, Dyson School of Design Engineering

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Systems
 
 
 
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1M02Royal College of ScienceSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Mcloughlin:2019:10.1098/rsif.2019.0225,
author = {Mcloughlin, MP and Stewart, R and McElligott, AG},
doi = {10.1098/rsif.2019.0225},
journal = {Journal of The Royal Society Interface},
pages = {1--12},
title = {Automated bioacoustics: methods in ecology and conservation and their potential for animal welfare monitoring},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0225},
volume = {16},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Vocalizations carry emotional, physiological and individual information. This suggests that they may serve as potentially useful indicators for inferring animal welfare. At the same time, automated methods for analysing and classifying sound have developed rapidly, particularly in the fields of ecology, conservation and sound scene classification. These methods are already used to automatically classify animal vocalizations, for example, in identifying animal species and estimating numbers of individuals. Despite this potential, they have not yet found widespread application in animal welfare monitoring. In this review, we first discuss current trends in sound analysis for ecology, conservation and sound classification. Following this, we detail the vocalizations produced by three of the most important farm livestock species: chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus), pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) and cattle (Bos taurus). Finally, we describe how these methods can be applied to monitor animal welfare with new potential for developing automated methods for large-scale farming.
AU  - Mcloughlin,MP
AU  - Stewart,R
AU  - McElligott,AG
DO  - 10.1098/rsif.2019.0225
EP  - 12
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1742-5689
SP  - 1
TI  - Automated bioacoustics: methods in ecology and conservation and their potential for animal welfare monitoring
T2  - Journal of The Royal Society Interface
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0225
UR  - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2019.0225
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/73965
VL  - 16
ER  -
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