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Discerning pig screams in production environments.
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- A Systematic Review on Validated Precision Livestock Farming Technologies for Pig Production and Its Potential to Assess Animal Welfare.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021Pooled it
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- A review of sound-based pig monitoring for enhanced precision production.Journal of animal science and technology · 2025Review
- A novel approach to porcine abnormal sounds recognition based on improved Multi-SVDD.PloS one · 2025Article
- Eliciting and Characterizing Porcine Vocalizations: When Pigs Fly.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2024Article
- Detecting tail biters by monitoring pig screams in weaning pigs.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Human-computer interactions with farm animals-enhancing welfare through precision livestock farming and artificial intelligence.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Early Changes in Porcine Larynges Following Injection of Motor-Endplate Expressing Muscle Cells for the Treatment of Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis.The Laryngoscope · 2024Article
- Modelling of Animal Activity, Illuminance, and Noise on a Weaned Piglet Farm.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Opportunities for Regulatory Authorities to Assess Animal-Based Measures at the Slaughterhouse Using Sensor Technology and Artificial Intelligence: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
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- An investigation of the use of ethyl chloride and meloxicam to decrease the pain associated with a single or double incision method of castration in piglets.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Objective Assessment of Porcine Voice Acoustics for Laryngeal Surgical Modeling.Applied sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- 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 (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Variations in the Behavior of Pigs During an Open Field and Novel Object Test.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Article
- Precision Livestock Farming in Swine Welfare: A Review for Swine Practitioners.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Review
- Early detection of health and welfare compromises through automated detection of behavioural changes in pigs.Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997) · 2016Review
- Early recognition of bovine respiratory disease in calves using automated continuous monitoring of cough sounds.Computers and electronics in agriculture · 2016Article
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Abstract
Pig vocalisations convey information about their current state of health and welfare. Continuously monitoring these vocalisations can provide useful information for the farmer. For instance, pig screams can indicate stressful situations. When monitoring screams, other sounds can interfere with scream detection. Therefore, identifying screams from other sounds is essential. The objective of this study was to understand which sound features define a scream. Therefore, a method to detect screams based on sound features with physical meaning and explicit rules was developed. To achieve this, 7 hours of labelled data from 24 pigs was used. The developed detection method attained 72% sensitivity, 91% specificity and 83% precision. As a result, the detection method showed that screams contain the following features discerning them from other sounds: a formant structure, adequate power, high frequency content, sufficient variability and duration.
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