Design and Implementation of an Astute Infant Monitoring System Based on YOLO v8 Algorithm

Parents today have a greater workload because they are working hard at their careers. As a result, there is less opportunity of giving babies better care. Children’s health may suffer greatly as a result of this. Even if the infants are appropriately and consistently monitored, there is a risk of losing life. For this, we use cameras to monitor the external conditions. The system is designed to monitor and alert the baby emotions to the parents. The monitoring of baby’s motion, emotions and surrounding is done by the camera that is fixed in an angle that it can cover the baby to the maximum extend. The camera that are fixed turn according to the baby’s movement, so that it continuously monitors the baby. The system will alert the user if there in some negative emotion given by the baby. The system is trained in a way that it monitors the surroundings around the baby carefully. (eg: fire). This is done using YOLO v8. YOLO v8 is an anchor-free model.