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.