Sound Localisation in Practice: An Application in Localisation of Sick Animals in Commercial Piggeries

Vasileios Exadaktylos1, Mitchell Silva1, Sara Ferrari2, Marcella Guarino2 and Daniel Berckmans1 1Measure, Model and Manage Bioresponses (M3-BIORES), Department of Biosystems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 30, 3001 Heverlee 2Department of Veterinarian Sciences and Technologies for Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milano, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milan 1Belgium 2Italy

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