Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 3, 2021
Distinguishing between a dangerous audio event like a gun firing and other non-life-threatening events, such as a plastic bag bursting, can mean the difference between life and death and, therefore, the necessary and unnecessary deployment of public ...
Scientific reports
Nov 3, 2021
Environmental sound classification is one of the important issues in the audio recognition field. Compared with structured sounds such as speech and music, the time-frequency structure of environmental sounds is more complicated. In order to learn ti...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Oct 9, 2021
Sound event detection (SED) recognizes the corresponding sound event of an incoming signal and estimates its temporal boundary. Although SED has been recently developed and used in various fields, achieving noise-robust SED in a real environment is t...
Scientific reports
Sep 27, 2021
Recently deep learning has attained a breakthrough in model accuracy for the classification of images due mainly to convolutional neural networks. In the present study, we attempted to investigate the presence of subclinical voice feature alteration ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 16, 2021
In the important and challenging field of environmental sound classification (ESC), a crucial and even decisive factor is the feature representation ability, which can directly affect the accuracy of classification. Therefore, the classification perf...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 5, 2021
Despite technological progress, we lack a consensus on the method of conducting automated bowel sound (BS) analysis and, consequently, BS tools have not become available to doctors. We aimed to briefly review the literature on BS recording and analys...
Scientific reports
Aug 3, 2021
The use of autonomous recordings of animal sounds to detect species is a popular conservation tool, constantly improving in fidelity as audio hardware and software evolves. Current classification algorithms utilise sound features extracted from the r...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jul 26, 2021
Ultrasound sound-speed tomography (USST) has shown great prospects for breast cancer diagnosis due to its advantages of nonradiation, low cost, 3-D breast images, and quantitative indicators. However, the reconstruction quality of USST is highly depe...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 20, 2021
Road condition evaluation is a critical part of gravel road maintenance. One of the assessed parameters is the amount of loose gravel, as this determines the driving quality and safety. Loose gravel can cause tires to slip and the driver to lose cont...
BioMed research international
Jul 2, 2021
In the current study, our goal was to obtain a robust model to predict the speed of sound in biodiesel. For this purpose, an extensive databank has been extracted from previously published papers. Then, a Support Vector Machine (SVM) has been optimiz...