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Detection and Discrimination of Sniffing and Panting Sounds of Dogs

Detection and Discrimination of Sniffing and Panting Sounds of Dogs. Ophir Azulai(1), Gil Bloch(1), Yizhar Lavner (1,2), Irit Gazit (3) and Joseph Terkel (3).

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Detection and Discrimination of Sniffing and Panting Sounds of Dogs

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  1. Detection and Discrimination of Sniffing and Panting Sounds of Dogs • Ophir Azulai(1), Gil Bloch(1), Yizhar Lavner (1,2), Irit Gazit (3) and Joseph Terkel (3). • Signals and Image Processing Lab (SIPL), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel (http://www-sipl.technion.ac.il) • Computer Science, Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel. • Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

  2. Abstract Dogs’ acute sense of smell enables them to accurately identify many types of odors. This ability serves in the detection of drugs, explosives, finding people, and other special tasks. The possibility of controlling dogs’ behavior suggests many potential applications. For this purpose, an automatic system for recognition of panting and sniffing according to their corresponding acoustic signals was developed. The system consists of three main components: analysis, training and discrimination. In the analysis stage the events were detected using short-time energy and zero-crossing rate functions. Features for discrimination were extracted utilizing an autoregressive model or by means of a Mel-frequency cepstrum. A few parameters of the spectral envelope were selected, based on their discrimination ability. In the training stage, a feedforward neural network was trained, using labeled signals. Alternatively, a fuzzy K-nearest neighbor algorithm can be used. Correct identification of up to 96.8% was achieved in the discrimination stage.

  3. Panting and Sniffing Signals

  4. Discrimination Method 1

  5. Events finding Using Normalized Short Time Energy Function

  6. AR model frequency response

  7. Neural Network Using three layers, feed forward network with back propagation learning method

  8. Discrimination Method 2

  9. Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients

  10. Event Feature Vector

  11. Fuzzy KNN

  12. Membership Function Classification results using Fuzzy KNN

  13. Comparison of both methods Calibration Process:

  14. Comparison of both methods continued Analyze Process:

  15. Conclusions • Sniffing and Panting sounds has unique signature that can discriminate between them • Some frequency response model can give us the desired information. • Event finding should combine both feature vector and some other method like energy function or ZCR.

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