Machine learning tool to decipher infant’s cry
Hyderabad: Infants have a cry reflex. Parents get used to identifying the cries with time. Till then, there is no sure way of knowing why an infant is crying. But some help seems to be on the way. A group of engineering students has worked out an idea to decipher why infants cry. “The Infant […]
Hyderabad: Infants have a cry reflex. Parents get used to identifying the cries with time. Till then, there is no sure way of knowing why an infant is crying. But some help seems to be on the way. A group of engineering students has worked out an idea to decipher why infants cry.
“The Infant Cry Detector will record the cries and match with the data it has and suggest the possible reasons why they could be crying. This will lessen the anxiety for the parents. The cries vary with the stimuli – hunger, pain, discomfort, dampness and so on. Each cry has a different pitch,” said Kareke Buvika, a third-year engineering student.
Three other students – Nidhi Venugopal Nair, Kondoju Swathi and Thota Monisha- to are part of the project. “Our analysis focuses on building a machine learning model that emphasises on extracting, processing, classifying the various reasons behind an infant’s cry. As the model evolves, we can add more sub-classifications of cries,” she said.
Another set of students -T Rohit Reddy, Mohd Rehan Mohiuddin, Mohad Abdullah Omer, Abhishek Kumar Jeva and Choudavarpu Prateek of Matrusri Engineering College created ‘Smart Fabricia Using IOT’. This is a hybrid product that has to be worn by the users. It can be designed as a jacket, gloves, sleeves, ring or other products.
“Our idea is to monitor the psychophysiological data of the users. It has a circuit embedded which transfers users’ data to the cloud. The data monitoring is automated. If there is an emergency, it will notify the caretakers and also the nearby healthcare centres.
There is also work happening on a prosthetic hand with tactile sensors. This arm will be helpful in picking up things and can be an assistive hand for people who have lost their upper limbs. The effort is to bring prosthetic arms at a low cost with the use of 3D printing and biocompatible lightweight structure.
All these were part of the state-level exhibition for assistive technology held on Tuesday to mark World Braille Day. The exhibition is hosted as part of the Telangana Assistive Technology Summit 2.0 to recognise and showcase assistive and rehabilitative solutions for the elderly and people with disabilities (PWDs).
Speaking on the occasion, Industries and IT Principal Secretary Jayesh Ranjan said Telangana Government has procured innovations that look to address the concerns of people with disabilities on a pilot basis in the last year and we will look at doing the same to encourage more innovators and entrepreneurs. The event serves as a platform to identify the solutions, scale them to market-ready. This also makes way for startups from across India to find their market here in Telangana, he said.
The event was organised by the Telangana State Innovation Cell in collaboration with the Department of Welfare of Disabled and Senior Citizens (WDSC). WDSC Special Secretary Divya Devarajan and State Commissioner Shailaja Sajja and attended.
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