Browsing by Author "Vidaña Vila, Ester"
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A two-stage approach to automatically detect and classify woodpecker (Fam. Picidae) sounds.
Vidaña Vila, Ester; Navarro, Joan; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Ramírez, Álvaro (Applied Acoustics: Vol. 166, Set. 2020, 2020-09)Inventorying and monitoring which bird species inhabit a specific area give rich and reliable information regarding its conservation status and other meaningful biological parameters. Typically, this ... -
Acoustic Comfort Prediction: Integrating Sound Event Detection and Noise Levels from a Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network
Bonet-Solà, Daniel; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (Sensors, 2024-07-07)There is an increasing interest in accurately evaluating urban soundscapes to reflect citizens’ subjective perceptions of acoustic comfort. Various indices have been proposed in the literature to achieve ... -
Analysis and Acoustic Event Classification of Environmental Data Collected in a Citizen Science Project
Bonet-Solà, Daniel; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023-02-19)Citizen science can serve as a tool to obtain information about changes in the soundscape. One of the challenges of citizen science projects is the processing of data gathered by the citizens, to obtain ... -
BCNDataset: Description and Analysis of an Annotated Night Urban Leisure Sound Dataset
Vidaña Vila, Ester; Duboc, Leticia; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Polls, Francesc; Vargas Barrantes, Harold (Sustainability, 2020, Vol. 12, No. 19, 2020-10)Acoustic pollution has been associated with adverse effects on the health and life expectancy of people, especially when noise exposure happens during the nighttime. With over half of the world population ... -
CloMet: A Novel Open-Source and Modular Software Platform That Connects Established Metabolomics Repositories and Data Analysis Resources
Rodeiro, Jordi; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Navarro, Joan; Mallol, Roger (Journal of proteome research, 2023-07)The field of metabolomics has witnessed the development of hundreds of computational tools, but only a few have become cornerstones of this field. While MetaboLights and Metabolomics Workbench are two ... -
Conscious walk assessment for the joint evaluation of the soundscape, air quality, biodiversity, and comfort in Barcelona
Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Parés Calaf, Maria Eulàlia; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Freixes, Marc; Garcia-Santos, Danielly; Arnela, Marc; Martinez-Suquia, Carme; Serra, Oriol; Ferrandiz-Rovira, Mariona (Noise Mapping, 2023-12)High environmental noise as well as poor biodiversity and air pollution pose significant challenges for the European population, particularly those residing in urban areas, impacting clearly on citizens’ ... -
Empowering curiosity: Bridging academic learning and impactful research in the Master in Big Data
Vidaña Vila, Ester; Aguado, Víctor; Navarro, Joan (Actes de la 4a Jornada de Recerca, Docència i Innovació Docent, 2024-01-24) -
Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples
Nolasco, Ines; Singh, Shubhr; Morfi, Veronica; Lostanlen, Vincent; Strandburg-Peshkin, Ariana; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Gil, Lisa; Pamula, Hanna; Whitehead, Helen; Kiskin, Ivan; Jensen, Frants; Morford, Joe; Emmerson, Michael G.; Versace, Elisabetta; Grout, Emily; Liu, Haohe; Ghani, Burooj; Stowell, Dan (Ecological Informatics, 2023-11)Automatic detection and classification of animal sounds has many applications in biodiversity monitoring and animal behavior. In the past twenty years, the volume of digitised wildlife sound available ... -
Low-Cost Distributed Acoustic Sensor Network for Real-Time Urban Sound Monitoring
Vidaña Vila, Ester; Navarro, Joan; Borda Fortuny, Cristina; Stowell, Dan; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (Electronics, 2020, Vol. 9, No. 12, 2020-12)Continuous exposure to urban noise has been found to be one of the major threats to citizens’ health. In this regard, several organizations are devoting huge efforts to designing new in-field systems ... -
Multilabel Acoustic Event Classification Using Real-World Urban Data and Physical Redundancy of Sensors
Vidaña Vila, Ester; Navarro, Joan; Stowell, Dan; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (Sensors, 2021-10)Many people living in urban environments nowadays are overexposed to noise, which results in adverse effects on their health. Thus, urban sound monitoring has emerged as a powerful tool that might enable ... -
Prediction of the acoustic comfort of a dwelling based on automatic sound event detection
Bonet-Solà, Daniel; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (Noise Mapping, 2023-12-31)There is an increasing concern about noise pollution around the world. As a first step to tackling the problem of deteriorated urban soundscapes, this article aims to develop a tool that automatically ... -
Real-Time Distributed Architecture for Remote Acoustic Elderly Monitoring in Residential-Scale Ambient Assisted Living Scenarios
Navarro, Joan; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Hervás, Marcos (Sensors. 2018, Vol. 18, No.8., 2018-08)Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) has become a powerful alternative to improving the life quality of elderly and partially dependent people in their own living environments. In this regard, tele-care and ... -
Towards Automatic Bird Detection: An Annotated and Segmented Acoustic Dataset of Seven Picidae Species
Vidaña Vila, Ester; Navarro, Joan; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (Data, 2017. Vol. 2, 2, 2017-03)Analysing behavioural patterns of bird species in a certain region enables researchers to recognize forthcoming changes in environment, ecology, and population. Ornithologists spend many hours observing ... -
Utilizando analítica del aprendizaje en una clase invertida: Experiencia de uso en la asignatura de Sistemas Digitales y Microprocesadores
Navarro, Joan; Amo Filvà, Daniel; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Martinez-Suquia, Carme (2018-07)El modelo de clase invertida (o flipped classroom) permite al docente implementar actividades de aprendizaje activo en las sesiones presenciales dejando que el alumno trabaje los contenidos más teóricos ... -
Western Mediterranean wetland birds dataset: A new annotated dataset for acoustic bird species classification
Gómez-Gómez, Joan; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Sevillano, Xavier (Ecological Informatics. Vol 75, Juliol 2023, 2023-02)The deployment of an expert system running over a wireless acoustic sensors network made up of bioacoustic monitoring devices that recognize bird species from their sounds would enable the automation ...