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A Comparative Survey of Feature Extraction and Machine Learning Methods in Diverse Acoustic Environments
(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 Review of physical and perceptual feature extraction techniques for speech, music and environmental sounds
(Applied Sciences. 2016, Vol. 6, No.5 (Maig), 2016-05)Endowing machines with sensing capabilities similar to those of humans is a prevalent quest in engineering and computer science. In the pursuit of making computers sense their surroundings, a huge effort ... -
Acoustic Description of Bird Broiler Vocalisations in a Real-Life Intensive Farm and Its Impact on Animal Welfare: A Comparative Analysis of Recordings
(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
(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 ... -
Aggregate Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on the WASN-Based Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Urban and Suburban Environments
(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 Approach to Frequency Selectivity in an Urban Environment by Means of Multi-Path Acoustic Channel Analysis
(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
(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 ... -
Aplicaciones de la teoría de grafos en la resolución de problemas de transmisión del ruido y vibraciones en modelos de análisis estadístico energético
(2012-10)El estudio del comportamiento vibroacústico de maquinaria requiere tanto de medidas experimentales como de simulación numérica. Para altas frecuencias, ésta última suele realizarse mediante el análisis ... -
BCNDataset: Description and Analysis of an Annotated Night Urban Leisure Sound Dataset
(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 ... -
La Conversión de Texto en Habla Multidominio: principios y portabilidad
(Libro de actas de las IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla, 2006-11-08)La conversión de texto en habla (CTH) multidominio per-sigue conseguir una calidad sintética cercana a la de lossistemas de CTH diseñados para un determinado ámbi-to o aplicación, aumentando su flexibilidad ... -
Description of Anomalous Noise Events for Reliable Dynamic Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Soundscapes
(Applied Sciences. 2017, Vol.7 No.2 (Febrer), 2017-02)Traffic noise is one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. European authorities have driven several initiatives to study, prevent and reduce the effects of exposure of population to traffic. ... -
Design of a Low-Cost Configurable Acoustic Sensor for the Rapid Development of Sound Recognition Applications
(Electronics, 2020, Vol. 9, No 7, 2020-07)Concerned about the noise pollution in urban environments, the European Commission (EC) has created an Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) requiring Member states to publish noise maps and ... -
Determining Position Inside Non-industrial Buildings Using Ultrasound Transducers
(Sensors, 2007, (7) 11, 2007-11)The position determination inside a building where no GPS signal is beingreceived can be ascertained using laser transmitters in industrial situations where there areno people or using triangulation of ... -
homeSound: A High Performance Platform for Massive Data Acquisitionand Processing in Ambient Assisted Living Environments
(2017-02)Las Smart Grids se presentan como una solución a la demanda de la gestión distribuida e inteligente de la energía, mejorando así las funciones de automatización, recolección ... -
Low-Cost Distributed Acoustic Sensor Network for Real-Time Urban Sound Monitoring
(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 ... -
Noise at the time of COVID 19: The impact in some areas in Rome and Milan, Italy
(Noise Mapp, 2020, 7, 2020-11)The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Italy at the end of January 2020, when the first positive cases for the virus were identified. At the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all Italian regions ... -
Objective Viseme Extraction and Audiovisual Uncertainty: Estimation Limits between Auditory and Visual Modes
(2007-08)An objective way to obtain consonant visemes for any given Spanish speaking person is proposed. Its face is recorded while speaking a balanced set of sentences and stored as an audiovisual sequence. ... -
On the Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Urban and Suburban Environments
(International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health. 2017.15.1, 2017-12)Noise pollution is a critical factor affecting public health, the relationship between road traffic noise (RTN) and several diseases in urban areas being especially disturbing. The Environmental Noise ... -
Performance Analysis of the Acoustic Event Detector in the DYNAMAP’s Rome suburban area
(2019-09)Environmental noise is increasing year after year and, besides annoyance, it causes harmful health effects on people according to last 2018 WHO report. The Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) ... -
Real-Time Audio Event Detection over a Low-Cost GPU Platform for Surveillance in Remote Elderly Monitoring
(4th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 2017-11-14)The average of life expectancy of the population and the prioritization of authorities in active and home aging has increased recently. This has led governments and private organizations to increase ...