Automated bioacoustics: methods in ecology and conservation and their potential for animal welfare monitoring

Bats increase vocal amplitude and decrease vocal complexity to mitigate noise interference during social communication

(2019) Tinglei Jiang et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The sound of a tropical forest

(2019) Zuzana Burivalova et al.   SCIENCE

Animal emotion: Descriptive and prescriptive definitions and their implications for a comparative perspective

(2018) Elizabeth S. Paul et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Efficacy of extracting indices from large-scale acoustic recordings to monitor biodiversity

(2018) Rachel Buxton et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Estimating animal acoustic diversity in tropical environments using unsupervised multiresolution analysis

(2018) Juan Sebastian Ulloa et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Development of an objective and uniform scoring method to evaluate the quality of rearing in Dutch dairy herds

(2018) I.M.G.A. Santman-Berends et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Bat detective—Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection

(2018) Oisin Mac Aodha et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events: Outcome of the DCASE 2016 Challenge

(2018) Annamaria Mesaros et al.   IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Encoding of Emotional Valence in Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Calls

(2018) Anne-Laure Maigrot et al.   Animals

It's time to listen: there is much to be learned from the sounds of tropical ecosystems

(2018) Jessica L. Deichmann et al.   BIOTROPICA

Flawed mothering or infant signaling? The effects of deficient acoustic cues on ovine maternal response

(2018) Christine L. Morton et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Call and be counted! Can we reliably estimate the number of callers in the indri's (Indri indri) song?

(2018) Valeria Torti et al.   PLoS One

Deep Learning for Audio Event Detection and Tagging on Low-Resource Datasets

(2018) Veronica Morfi et al.   Applied Sciences-Basel

Perception of emotional valence in horse whinnies

(2017) Elodie F. Briefer et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for Environmental Sound Classification

(2017) Justin Salamon et al.   IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS

The behavioural response of migrating humpback whales to a full seismic airgun array

(2017) Rebecca A. Dunlop et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On-Bird Sound Recordings: Automatic Acoustic Recognition of Activities and Contexts

(2017) Dan Stowell et al.   IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Acoustic correlates of body size and individual identity in banded penguins

(2017) Livio Favaro et al.   PLoS One

Mother–offspring recognition via contact calls in cattle, Bos taurus

(2016) Mónica Padilla de la Torre et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Vocal individuality and species divergence in the contact calls of banded penguins

(2016) Livio Favaro et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Early recognition of bovine respiratory disease in calves using automated continuous monitoring of cough sounds

(2016) Joris Vandermeulen et al.   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE

Structural Classification of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Vocalizations

(2016) Maxime Garcia et al.   ETHOLOGY

Honest signaling in domestic piglets (Sus scrofa domesticus): vocal allometry and the information content of grunt calls

(2016) Maxime Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Early detection of health and welfare compromises through automated detection of behavioural changes in pigs

(2016) Stephen G. Matthews et al.   VETERINARY JOURNAL

Acoustic signalling reflects personality in a social mammal

(2016) Mary Friel et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Technology and Poultry Welfare

(2016) Neila Ben Sassi et al.   Animals

Updating Animal Welfare Thinking: Moving beyond the “Five Freedoms” towards “A Life Worth Living”

(2016) David Mellor   Animals

Traffic noise reduces foraging efficiency in wild owls

(2016) Masayuki Senzaki et al.   Scientific Reports

Welfare of organic laying hens kept at different indoor stocking densities in a multi-tier aviary system. I: egg laying, and use of veranda and outdoor area

(2015) S. Steenfeldt et al.   Animal

Emotions in goats: mapping physiological, behavioural and vocal profiles

(2015) Elodie F. Briefer et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The use of judgement bias to assess welfare in farm livestock

(2015) L Baciadonna et al.   ANIMAL WELFARE

Bird acoustic activity detection based on morphological filtering of the spectrogram

(2015) Allan G. de Oliveira et al.   APPLIED ACOUSTICS

Acoustic analysis of cattle (Bos taurus) mother–offspring contact calls from a source–filter theory perspective

(2015) Mónica Padilla de la Torre et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

An innovative approach to predict the growth in intensive poultry farming

(2015) Ilaria Fontana et al.   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE

Development of cues to individuality and sex in calls of three crane species: when is it good to be recognizable?

(2015) Maria V. Goncharova et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Housing and management factors associated with indicators of dairy cattle welfare

(2015) M. de Vries et al.   PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE

Determining Temporal Sampling Schemes for Passive Acoustic Studies in Different Tropical Ecosystems

(2015) N. Pieretti et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Influence of artificial lighting on the performance and egg quality of commercial layers: a review

(2015) IMTD Jácome et al.   Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science

Expression of Emotional Arousal in Two Different Piglet Call Types

(2015) Pavel Linhart et al.   PLoS One

Vocal individuality cues in the African penguin (Spheniscus demersus): a source-filter theory approach

(2015) Livio Favaro et al.   Scientific Reports

Artificial Neural Network Approach for Revealing Individuality, Group Membership and Age Information in Goat Kid Contact Calls

(2014) Livio Favaro et al.   ACTA ACUSTICA UNITED WITH ACUSTICA

Reduced stocking density mitigates the negative effects of regrouping in dairy cattle

(2014) A. Talebi et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Positive animal welfare states and reference standards for welfare assessment

(2014) DJ Mellor   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

A general framework for animal density estimation from acoustic detections across a fixed microphone array

(2014) Ben C. Stevenson et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Effective and accurate discrimination of individual dairy cattle through acoustic sensing

(2013) Singh Yajuvendra et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Encoding of Situations in the Vocal Repertoire of Piglets (Sus scrofa): A Comparison of Discrete and Graded Classifications

(2013) Céline Tallet et al.   PLoS One

A Review and Inventory of Fixed Autonomous Recorders for Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Marine Mammals

(2013) Renata Sousa-Lima   AQUATIC MAMMALS

Real-time bioacoustics monitoring and automated species identification

(2013) T. Mitchell Aide et al.   PeerJ

Understanding Vocalization Might Help to Assess Stressful Conditions in Piglets

(2013) Alexandra da Silva Cordeiro et al.   Animals

Estimating animal population density using passive acoustics

(2012) Tiago A. Marques et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Evaluating observer agreement of scoring systems for foot integrity and footrot lesions in sheep

(2012) Alessandro Foddai et al.   BMC Veterinary Research

Vocal expression of emotions in mammals: mechanisms of production and evidence

(2012) E. F. Briefer   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Field test of an affordable, portable, wireless microphone array for spatial monitoring of animal ecology and behaviour

(2012) Daniel J. Mennill et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Barking pigs: differences in acoustic morphology predict juvenile responses to alarm calls

(2011) Winnie Y. Chan et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The effects of environmental enrichment in the chick anxiety-depression model

(2011) Eun Ha Kim et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Acoustic monitoring in terrestrial environments using microphone arrays: applications, technological considerations and prospectus

(2011) Daniel T. Blumstein et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Risk mapping for sensitive species to underwater anthropogenic sound emissions: Model development and validation in two Mediterranean areas

(2011) A. Azzellino et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Listening to the Deep: Live monitoring of ocean noise and cetacean acoustic signals

(2011) M. André et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Animal welfare: At the interface between science and society

(2011) F. Ohl et al.   VETERINARY JOURNAL

Noise-induced hearing loss in agriculture: Creating partnerships to overcome barriers and educate the community on prevention

(2011) JanetJ Ehlers et al.   Noise & Health

A new methodology to infer the singing activity of an avian community: The Acoustic Complexity Index (ACI)

(2010) N. Pieretti et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Your attention please: increasing ambient noise levels elicits a change in communication behaviour in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

(2010) R. A. Dunlop et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood

(2010) M. Mendl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The contribution of source-filter theory to mammal vocal communication research

(2009) A. M. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Detecting bird sounds in a complex acoustic environment and application to bioacoustic monitoring

(2009) R. Bardeli et al.   PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS

Stocking density effects on broiler welfare: Identifying sensitive ranges for different indicators

(2009) S. Buijs et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Tail-biting: A new perspective

(2009) Nina R. Taylor et al.   VETERINARY JOURNAL

Real-Time Airflow Rate Measurements from Mechanically Ventilated Animal Buildings

(2009) Steven J. Hoff et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Vocalisations and acoustic parameters of flock noise from feather pecking and non-feather pecking laying flocks

(2008) A. Bright   BRITISH POULTRY SCIENCE

Cough localization for the detection of respiratory diseases in pig houses

(2008) M. Silva et al.   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE

Acoustic feature selection for automatic emotion recognition from speech

(2008) Jia Rong et al.   INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT

Passive acoustic detection and localization of whales: Effects of shipping noise in Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park

(2008) Yvan Simard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Leg Disorders in Broiler Chickens: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Prevention

(2008) Toby G. Knowles et al.   PLoS One

Low Frequency Groans Indicate Larger and More Dominant Fallow Deer (Dama dama) Males

(2008) Elisabetta Vannoni et al.   PLoS One

Assessment of positive welfare: A review

(2007) J.W. Yeates et al.   VETERINARY JOURNAL