Database and system design for data collection of crying related to infant´s needs and diseases

In this paper we have focused on designing and collecting an infant crying database. The data have been collected using an in-house developed acquisition system. The study has involved 136 infants aged between 0 and 3 months. Seven types of cries have been collected: hunger, pain, eructation, tiredness, discomfort, colic and pathology. Some of the data (about 750 audio/video recordings meaning about 13000 cries) have been collected from the maternity of the “Sf. Pantelimon” Emergency Hospital and the other part (over 340 audio/video recordings meaning about 5100 cries) have been collected at newborns´ home. All the data have been labeled by neonatal experts. This infant crying database will be used to develop new methods for infant cry recognition.