It is well known that abnormal animal behaviour is affected by both environment and genetics. This thesis aimed to use behavioural observations as well as gene expression measurements to explore how animals that perform and receive tail biting (pigs) and feather pecking (laying hens) differ from individuals that are not involved in these behaviours. In study I, the results suggested that tail b...

vision techniques is a growing research area with many interesting studies. The traditional way of analyzing the behaviour of animals is by visual inspection of human observers which is very time consuming and also limits the size of data that can be processed. In this study, we present a novel framework for abnormal behaviour detection and especially focus on fish trajectories. Fish behaviour ...

This paper deals with a follow-up system that passively observes elderly people moving about in a hospital setting and records automatically various patterns of activity. The aim is to propose a support tool to help the medical staff make decisions. The system is based on a sensor network connected to a processing unit. The software developed automatically follows the patient’s behaviour and pl...

This paper focuses on the detection of the abnormal motion behaviour recognition of the crowd, and proposes an innovation method which is consist of three steps, i.e. SIFT flow + weighted orientation histogram + Hidden Markov Model(HMM). Analogous to optical flow, which is used to get the motion information of the pixels from two adjacent frames, SIFT flow is of higher precision. Next, we build...

BACKGROUND Abnormal illness behaviour by proxy (also known as factitious illness by proxy or Munchhausen syndrome by proxy) is a type of child maltreatment, the origins of which are poorly understood. AIMS To describe attachment representations in a cohort of mothers demonstrating abnormal illness behaviour by proxy. METHOD Sixty-seven mothers who had shown this behaviour took part in a sem...

This paper investigates the detection of global abnormal behaviours across a network of CCTV cameras. Although the problem of multiple camera tracking has attracted much attention recently, little work has been done on modelling global behaviours of objects monitored by a network of CCTV cameras with disjointed camera views, and no effort has been taken to tackle the challenging problem of dete...

In an attempt to detect electroencephalographic (EEG) changes associated with characteristic clinical signs and symptoms of schizophrenia, power spectra were derived from scalp EEGs of schizophrenic patients recorded by telemetry during free behaviour on their psychiatric wards. Power spectra from EEG epochs coincident with psychomotor blocking, stereotyped automatism or hallucinations were com...