Comparing supervised learning methods for classifying sex, age, context and individual Mudi dogs from barking

Larrañaga, Ana, Bielza Lozoya, María Concepción ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7109-2668, Pongrácz, Péter, Faragó, Tamás, Bálint, Anna and Larrañaga Múgica, Pedro María ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1885-4501 (2015). Comparing supervised learning methods for classifying sex, age, context and individual Mudi dogs from barking. "Animal cognition", v. 18 (n. 2); pp. 405-421. ISSN 1435-9448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0811-7.

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Title: Comparing supervised learning methods for classifying sex, age, context and individual Mudi dogs from barking
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Item Type: Article
Título de Revista/Publicación: Animal cognition
Date: 2015
ISSN: 1435-9448
Volume: 18
Subjects:
Freetext Keywords: Mudi dog barks; Acoustic communication; Feature subset selection; Machine learning; Supervised classification; K-fold cross-validation
Faculty: E.T.S. de Ingenieros Informáticos (UPM)
Department: Inteligencia Artificial
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

Barking is perhaps the most characteristic form
of vocalization in dogs; however, very little is known about
its role in the intraspecific communication of this species.
Besides the obvious need for ethological research, both in
the field and in the laboratory, the possible information
content of barks can also be explored by computerized
acoustic analyses. This study compares four different
supervised learning methods (naive Bayes, classification
trees, k-nearest neighbors and logistic regression) combined
with three strategies for selecting variables (all
variables, filter and wrapper feature subset selections) to
classify Mudi dogs by sex, age, context and individual
from their barks. The classification accuracy of the models
obtained was estimated by means of K-fold cross-validation.
Percentages of correct classifications were 85.13 %
for determining sex, 80.25 % for predicting age (recodified
as young, adult and old), 55.50 % for classifying contexts
(seven situations) and 67.63 % for recognizing individuals
(8 dogs), so the results are encouraging. The best-performing
method was k-nearest neighbors following a
wrapper feature selection approach. The results for classifying
contexts and recognizing individual dogs were better
with this method than they were for other approaches
reported in the specialized literature. This is the first time
that the sex and age of domestic dogs have been predicted
with the help of sound analysis. This study shows that dog
barks carry ample information regarding the caller’s
indexical features. Our computerized analysis provides
indirect proof that barks may serve as an important source
of information for dogs as well.

Funding Projects

Type
Code
Acronym
Leader
Title
FP7
604102
HBP
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
The Human Brain Project
Government of Spain
TIN2013-41592-P
Unspecified
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Aprendizaje de redes bayesianas con variables sin y con direccionalidad para descubrimiento de asociaciones, predicción multirespuesta y clustering
Government of Spain
C080020-09
Unspecified
Unspecified
Cajal Blue Brain

More information

Item ID: 40923
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/40923/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:40923
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-014-0811-7
Official URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-01...
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 25 Oct 2016 07:52
Last Modified: 05 Jun 2019 17:47
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