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An Intelligent hardware system for real-time infant cry detection and classification

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dc.contributor.advisor Sumathipala S
dc.contributor.author Pathirana UPPD
dc.date.accessioned 2020
dc.date.available 2020
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/16924
dc.description.abstract Cry, the universal communication language of the infants encodes vital information about the physiological and psychological health of the infant. Experienced caregivers can understand the cause of cry based on the pitch, tone, intensity, and duration. Similarly, pediatricians can diagnose hearing impairments, brain damages, and asphyxia by analyzing the cry signals, providing a non-invasive mechanism for early diagnosis in the first few months. Hence, automated cry classification has gained great importance in the fields of medicine and baby-care. With the emergence of the concept of the Internet of Things coupled with Artificial Intelligence, baby monitors have recently gained huge popularity due to features like sleep analysis, cry detection, and motion analysis through multiple sensors. Since cry classification involves audio processing in real-time, most of the solutions have either complex and costly designs or distributed computing, which leads to privacy concerns of the users. This research presents a low-cost intelligent hardware system for real-time infant cry detection and classification. The proposed solution presents the selection of the hardware to suit the requirements of audio processing while adhering to financial constraints and the firmware design, which includes voice activity detection, cry detection, and classification. This proposes the use of the multi-agent system as a resource management concept while proving that AI concepts can also be extended to resource-limited hardware platforms as the novelty. Firmware and algorithm are designed to maintain the accuracy figures above 90% while processing the audio signal at a higher rate than its production to maintain stability. A voice activity detector was designed to filter human voice through temporal features while cry detection and classification were respectively based on Artificial Neural Network and K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm trained with a spectral-domain feature vector called Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC). Evaluations under diverse conditions showed accuracy figures of 96.76% and 77.45% in cry detection and classification, respectively en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS-Dissertations en_US
dc.subject ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-Dissertations en_US
dc.subject ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS en_US
dc.subject K-NEAREST NEIGHBOUR ALGORITHM en_US
dc.subject MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENT en_US
dc.subject INFANTS-Cry Detection en_US
dc.subject INFANTS-Cry Classification en_US
dc.subject INFANTS-Voice Activity Detection en_US
dc.title An Intelligent hardware system for real-time infant cry detection and classification en_US
dc.type Thesis-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty IT en_US
dc.identifier.degree MSc in Artificial Intelligence en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Mathematics en_US
dc.date.accept 2020
dc.identifier.accno TH4242 en_US


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