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Analysis and Acoustic Event Classification of Environmental Data Collected in a Citizen Science Project
(MDPI : Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 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 ...
Prediction of the acoustic comfort of a dwelling based on automatic sound event detection
(De Gruyter Open Access, 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 ...
The Soundscape of the COVID-19 Lockdown: Barcelona Noise Monitoring Network Case Study †
(MDPI : Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 2021-05-28)
The lockdown social measures in Spain due to COVID-19 caused a significant decrease in urban noise levels, which was observed in most of the large cities. This paper presents an analysis of the noise ...
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
(MDPI, 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 ...
Acoustic Comfort Prediction: Integrating Sound Event Detection and Noise Levels from a Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network
(MDPI : Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 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 ...
Sons al balcó: Soundscape Map of the Confinement in Catalonia
(MDPI, 2020-11)
In this project, we aim to study the effect that the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused on the perception of noise in Catalonia. In Sons al Balcó, the research activities cohabit with the ...
Acoustic Description of Bird Broiler Vocalisations in a Real-Life Intensive Farm and Its Impact on Animal Welfare: A Comparative Analysis of Recordings
(MDPI, 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 ...
Noise at the time of COVID 19: The impact in some areas in Rome and Milan, Italy
(De Gruyter, 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 ...
Design of a Low-Cost Configurable Acoustic Sensor for the Rapid Development of Sound Recognition Applications
(MDPI, 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 ...
Low-Cost Distributed Acoustic Sensor Network for Real-Time Urban Sound Monitoring
(MDPI, 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 ...