Browsing by Author "Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma"
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A Comparative Survey of Feature Extraction and Machine Learning Methods in Diverse Acoustic Environments
Bonet-Solà, Daniel; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (Sensors, 2021, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2021-02)Acoustic event detection and analysis has been widely developed in the last few years for its valuable application in monitoring elderly or dependant people, for surveillance issues, for multimedia ... -
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 ... -
A WASN-Based Suburban Dataset for Anomalous Noise Event Detection on Dynamic Road-Traffic Noise Mapping
Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Orga, Ferran; Alías-Pujol, Francesc; Socoró, Joan Claudi (Sensors. 2019, Vol. 19, No. 11, 2019-05)Traffic noise is presently considered one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. Several recent technological advances have allowed a step forward in the dynamic computation of road-traffic ... -
Acoustic Categorization of the urban Multi-Sensor Network ofthe DYNAMAP LIFE project developed for Road Traffic NoiseMapping
Socoró, Joan Claudi; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Alías-Pujol, Francesc; Orga, Ferran (2019-06-16)The DYNAMAP LIFE project proposes the implementation of a dynamic noisemapping system able to determine the acoustic impact of road infrastructures inreal-time, following the European ... -
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 ... -
Acoustic Description of Bird Broiler Vocalisations in a Real-Life Intensive Farm and Its Impact on Animal Welfare: A Comparative Analysis of Recordings
Ginovart Panisello, Gerardo José; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Panisello Monjo, Tesa (Engineering Proceedings, 2020, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020-11)The poultry meat industry is one of the most efficient biological systems to transform cereal protein into high quality protein for human consumption at a low cost. However, to supply the increasing ... -
Acoustic Description of the Soundscape of a Real-Life Intensive Farm and Its Impact on Animal Welfare: A Preliminary Analysis of Farm Sounds and Bird Vocalisations
Ginovart Panisello, Gerardo José; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Iriondo, Ignasi; Panisello Monjo, Tesa ; Call Prat, Marcel (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 17, 2020-08)Poultry meat is the world’s primary source of animal protein due to low cost and is widelyeaten at a global level. However, intensive production is required to supply the demand although itgenerates ... -
Adapting an Anomalous Noise Events Detectorfor Real-Life Operation in the Rome SuburbanPilot Area of the DYNAMAP’s Project
Socoró, Joan Claudi; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Alías-Pujol, Francesc; Orga, Ferran (2018-05-27)The DYNAMAP project is aimed at implementing a dynamic noise mapping system able to determine the acoustic impact of road infrastructures in real-time, encouraged by the European Noise Directive 2002/49/EC. ... -
Advanced HF Communications for Remote Sensors in Antarctica
Porte, Joaquim; Pijoan, Joan Lluis; Maso Llinas, Josep M.; Badia, David; Zaballos, Agustin; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (Antarctica - A Key To Global Change, 2018-11)There is a strong research activity in Antarctica in the fields of geophysics, meteorology, wildlife, flora, oceanography, and environment, among others. This research activity often involves the ... -
Aggregate Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on the WASN-Based Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Urban and Suburban Environments
Alías-Pujol, Francesc; Orga, Ferran; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Socoró, Joan Claudi (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 3, 2020-01)Environmental noise can be defined as the accumulation of noise pollution caused by sounds generated by outdoor human activities, Road Traffic Noise (RTN) being the main source in urban and suburban ... -
An Anomalous Noise Events Detector for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Environments
Socoró, Joan Claudi; Alías-Pujol, Francesc; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (Sensors. 2017, Vol.17, No.10, 2017-10)One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is their continued exposure to high Road Traffic Noise (RTN) levels. Until now, noise measurements in ... -
An Approach to Frequency Selectivity in an Urban Environment by Means of Multi-Path Acoustic Channel Analysis
Bergada, Pau; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (Sensors. 2019. Vol. 19, No. 12, 2019-06)The improvement of quality of life in the framework of the smart city paradigm cannot be limited to a set of objective measures carried out over several critical parameters (e.g., noise or air pollution). ... -
An FPGA Platform Proposal for Real-Time Acoustic Event Detection: Optimum Platform Implementation for Audio Recognition with Time Restrictions
Hervás, Marcos; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma (3rd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 2016-11-14)Nowadays, monitoring of people and events is a common matter in the street, in the industry or at home, and acoustic event detection is commonly used. This increases the knowledge of what is happening ... -
An FPGA Scalable Software Defined Radio Platform Design for Educational and Research Purposes
Hervás, Marcos; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Salvador Marín, Martí (Electronics. 2016, Vol.5 , No.2, 2016-06)In a digital modem design, the integration of the Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) and Digital to Analog Converters (DAC) with the core processor is usually a major issue for the designer. In this ... -
An FPGA-Based WASN for Remote Real-Time Monitoring of Endangered Species: A Case Study on the Birdsong Recognition of Botaurus stellaris
Hervás, Marcos; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Alías-Pujol, Francesc; Salvador Marín, Martí (Sensors. 2017, Vol.17 , No. 6, 2017-06)Fast environmental variations due to climate change can cause mass decline or even extinctions of species, having a dramatic impact on the future of biodiversity. During the last decade, different ... -
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 ... -
Anomalous Noise Events Considerations for the Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Suburban Areas: The DYNAMAP's Rome Case Study
Orga, Ferran; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Alías-Pujol, Francesc; Socoró, Joan Claudi; Bellucci, Patrizia; Peruzzi, Laura (2017-06-07) -
Anomalous Noise Events Considerations for the Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels: The Dynamap's Milan Case Study
Orga, Ferran; Socoró, Joan Claudi; Alías-Pujol, Francesc; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Zambon, Giovanni; Benocci, Roberto; BISCEGLIE, ALESSANDRO VINCENZO (2017-07-23)Dynamic noise maps are computed to represent the noise levels generated by road traffic in realtime to determine the population exposure to environmental noise. To this aim, a network ofacoustic ... -
Automated Audio Data Monitoring for a Social Robot in Ambient Assisted Living Environments
Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma; Navarro, Joan; Casals Oliveras, Enric (New Friends 2016: The 2nd International Conference on Social Robots in Therapy & Education, 2016-11-04)Human life expectancy has steadily grown over the last century, which has driven governments and institutions to increase the efforts on caring about the eldest segment of the population. Although this ... -
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 ...