LMU-Based Sequential Learning and Posterior Ensemble Fusion for Cross-Domain Infant Cry Classification

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Hauptverfasser: Jazaeri, Niloofar, Dajani, Hilmi R., Janeczek, Marco, Bouchard, Martin
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author Jazaeri, Niloofar
Dajani, Hilmi R.
Janeczek, Marco
Bouchard, Martin
author_facet Jazaeri, Niloofar
Dajani, Hilmi R.
Janeczek, Marco
Bouchard, Martin
contents Decoding infant cry causes remains challenging for healthcare monitoring due to short nonstationary signals, limited annotations, and strong domain shifts across infants and datasets. We propose a compact acoustic framework that fuses mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), short-time Fourier transform (STFT) features, and fundamental-frequency (F0) contours within a multi-branch convolutional neural network (CNN) encoder, and models temporal dynamics using an enhanced Legendre Memory Unit (LMU). Compared to LSTMs, the LMU backbone provides stable sequence modeling with substantially fewer recurrent parameters, supporting efficient deployment. To improve cross-dataset generalization, we introduce calibrated posterior ensemble fusion with entropy-gated weighting to preserve domain-specific expertise while mitigating dataset bias. Experiments on Baby2020 and Baby Crying demonstrate improved macro-F1 under cross-domain evaluation, along with leakage aware splits and real-time feasibility for on-device monitoring.
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spellingShingle LMU-Based Sequential Learning and Posterior Ensemble Fusion for Cross-Domain Infant Cry Classification
Jazaeri, Niloofar
Dajani, Hilmi R.
Janeczek, Marco
Bouchard, Martin
Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
Sound
Decoding infant cry causes remains challenging for healthcare monitoring due to short nonstationary signals, limited annotations, and strong domain shifts across infants and datasets. We propose a compact acoustic framework that fuses mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), short-time Fourier transform (STFT) features, and fundamental-frequency (F0) contours within a multi-branch convolutional neural network (CNN) encoder, and models temporal dynamics using an enhanced Legendre Memory Unit (LMU). Compared to LSTMs, the LMU backbone provides stable sequence modeling with substantially fewer recurrent parameters, supporting efficient deployment. To improve cross-dataset generalization, we introduce calibrated posterior ensemble fusion with entropy-gated weighting to preserve domain-specific expertise while mitigating dataset bias. Experiments on Baby2020 and Baby Crying demonstrate improved macro-F1 under cross-domain evaluation, along with leakage aware splits and real-time feasibility for on-device monitoring.
title LMU-Based Sequential Learning and Posterior Ensemble Fusion for Cross-Domain Infant Cry Classification
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02245